Question

What is the midday meal programme? Can you list three benefits of the programme? How do think this programme might help promote greater equality

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The mid day meal scheme (MDMS) is a school meal providing program of the Government of India. Its aim is to improve the nutritional status of school going children all over the country and improve literacy level of the country.

Benefits of mid day meal:

1. More children begin to attend the classes so that they can get to eat food.

2. During the break, sometimes the children went to home to eat and didn't come back to school. But now, as the mid day meal program has started, their attendance has improved.

3. This scheme removes differences between different castes and people of middle class and lower class as everybody sit together to eat.  

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Answer 2

Answer:

Mid day meal scheme is a scheme which was started in Tamil Nadu, 2001 to provide children with cooked lunch in all government elementary schools.

The four benefits of this scheme that might help promote greater equality are =

1. More poor children have begun enrolling and regularly attending school.
2. Their mothers, who earlier had to interrupt their work to feed their children at home during the day, now no longer have to do so.
3. This program has also helped reduce caste system prejudices because children of all castes in the school eat this meal.
4. In quite a few places, Dalit women have been employed to cook the meal.