tamil nadu started the first mid day meal in india.
tamil nadu started the first mid day meal in india.
who started first mid day meal in india?
tamil nadu
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
tithi bhojan is a concept designed to ensure greater public participation under the mid day meal programme being followed in gujarat. in order to bring in greater community participation, local communities are encouraged to celebrate important family events viz., birth of a child, success in exam, inauguration of new house, etc. by contributing to the mid day meal served in the local schools. it is voluntarily served by the community/family among school children in several forms like sweets and namkeen along with regular mdm, full meals, supplementary nutritive items like sprouted beans, contribution in kind such as cooking ware, utensils, dinner sets or glasses for drinking water. the concept has been adopted by different states with local nomenclatures like "sampriti bhojan" in assam, "dham" in himachal pradesh, "sneh bhojan" in maharashtra, "shalegagi naavu neevu" in karnataka, "anna dhanam" in puducherry, "priti bhoj" in punjab and "utsav bhoj" in rajasthan.
midday meal scheme