Question

Explain midday meal in about 250 words

Answer 1

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school mealprogramme of the Government of Indiadesigned to improve the nutritional status 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 such programme in the world.[3]

Answer 2

This is an Indian Governmental project that aims at ensuring proper nutritional balance to every Indian school going child. The initiative is planned in such a way that the lunches are distributed to every learning institutions where there are school going children , the government ensures that these meals delivered,are of good quality and is balanced in nature. This leads to a healthy generation.

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