Question

Write a short note on Mid-Day Meal.

Answer 1

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 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.

Answer 2

The government of India inaugurated this program on 15 August 1995. The purpose of the project is to assist in advancing the effectiveness of fundamental education by promoting the nutritional health of primary school children.

This was the effort to improve admission, maintenance, and participation while simultaneously enhancing nutritional levels among the children in the government school. In the present scenario, this scheme covers nearly 12 crore children.

Midday meal scheme proved to be beneficial for the poor students because by providing free meal it helps to nourish the health of impoverished children.