mid day meal scheme comes under the ministry of social affairs and social services.
mid day meal scheme comes under the ministry of social affairs and social services.
mid day meal scheme comes under which ministry?
ministry of social affairs and social services
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the midday meal scheme is a school meal programme of the government of india designed to better the nutritional standing 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. serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and education guarantee scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world.
midday meal scheme
initiatives by state governments to children began with their launch of a mid day meal programme in primary schools in the 1962–63 school year. tamil nadu is a pioneer in introducing mid day meal programmes in india to increase the number of kids coming to school; k. kamaraj, then chief minister of tamil nadu, introduced it first in chennai and later extended it to all districts of tamil nadu.
midday meal scheme