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Midday meal scheme..

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. The objective of the scheme is to provide hot cooked meal to children of primary and upper primary classes.

Midday meal purposes...

1:The Mid-day Meal Scheme was started to provide a cooked mid-day meal on every school day with the nutritional content of 450 calories, 12 gm protein and other micro-nutrients to all children studying in Class I to VIII in government, local body, and government-aided schools.

2:The basic purpose of this scheme was to improve enrollment, retention and attendance of the children in school and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among them.

3:This encouraged poor children, belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities.

4:An additional purpose was to provide nutritional support to children of primary classes in drought-affected areas.

5:It is the largest school feeding program in the world covering 10.44 crore children in 12.2 lakh elementary schools across the country. The Mid-day Meal scheme is one of the most successful schemes of the Government of India.

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