Question

What is mid day meal scheme?Explain any two of it's purpose.

Answer 1

Midday meal scheme is programme which serves cooked food to many government schools in India. It was first used in Tamil Nadu in 2001. This was started basically to prevent children from going home for food and not coming back. Parents took it as an advantage for them as they would not have to cook food for their children. This improved the daily attendance of children in govt. schools.
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Answer 2

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed 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.[