Discuss the merits of the Midday Meal Scheme.
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Explanation:
Midday Meal Scheme was started in the 1960s. It is a program launched by the government of India in which food is provided to the students in their school. Some benefits of Midday Meal Scheme are:
• It works as an incentive for poor children and their parents to come to school. In this way, it helps to literate the population of the country.
• It promotes equality among various social castes as the same meal is eaten by every child together.
• It can also result in reducing the poverty level in long-term because more people will be educated after some years and they will contribute towards the economy.
MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME AIMS TO:avoid classroom hunger increase school enrolment increase school attendance improve socialisation among castes address malnutritionem power women through employment IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
Explanation:
The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme in India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.[1] The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour.[2] Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world.[3]