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The public expenditure for the Mid Day Meal Programme has gone up from ₹ 73.24 billion (US$850 million) in 2007–08 to ₹ 132.15 billion (US$1.5 billion) in 2013–14. [32] In 2020–21, the Midday Meal Scheme budget comprised 11% of the total budget for the Ministry of Education. [ 30 ]
The Act also includes the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM), the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) and maternity entitlements. While the MDM and ICDS were pre-existing schemes of the union government, universal maternity entitlements were created under the NFSA 2013 for the first time.
Since January, the 11-year-old has been among thousands of students receiving a mid-day meal - consisting, for example, of rice with a spiced, hard-boiled egg, stir-fried vegetables and a box of ...
Meanwhile, activists and concerned citizens are expressing apprehension over the fate of the mid-day meal programme that has reportedly served over 4 billion meals over the last 20 years. Students from over 19,000 schools across the country receive food from APF that is considered to be of hygienic quality, and the programme is one of the ...
This scheme was brought to national attention by Prime Minister Modi. [14] Tamil Nadu has launched 'Amma Unavagam' (Mother's canteen), or more commonly known as Amma canteen. [15] The genesis of this program could be traced to the scheme proposed by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in 2012 and is continuing its part in the mid-day meal ...
The vast majority of low-income Americans who qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits can only use them to pay for food that must be prepared at home. This means ...
Across India, the Midday Meal Scheme provides roughly 120 million children with free lunch, making it the world's most extensive school lunch program. [6] In spite of corruption involved in implementing the scheme, it aims to fight widespread poverty and improve children's school attendance and health as a large number of India's children suffer from malnutrition.
The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was introduced in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan [1] (1974–78), to provide certain basic minimum needs and improve the living standards of people. [2] It aims at "social and economic development of the community, particularly the underprivileged and underserved population".