An Indian Portrait
A girl student from poor, marginalised, tribal community of rural Bengal, a previous drop-out, now attending primary school regularly, after her class exams.........Thanks to the Mid-Day Meal Scheme!
Celebrating 175 years of photography
World Photo Day 2014 (August 19th) marks a special anniversary for photographers across the globe. It marks the 175th anniversary of the first permanent photographic process patented and freely released to the world on August 19th, 1839.
Mid-Day meals programme in India is a massive social welfare programme aiming at attracting children in to the educational main stream and also providing them with all the much needed supplementary nutrition to make them healthy and worthy citizens of the country. Under this programme, freashly cooked mid-day meals are provided in all government and government aided primary schools with a view to protect children from hunger, increase school enrollment and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children. This is the world’s largest school feeding programme, reaching out to almost 150 million children in over 1.2 million schools daily across the country with a public expenditure of Rs. 132,150 million (GBP £1320 million) in 2013–14. Also, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midday_Meal_Scheme
An Indian Portrait
A girl student from poor, marginalised, tribal community of rural Bengal, a previous drop-out, now attending primary school regularly, after her class exams.........Thanks to the Mid-Day Meal Scheme!
Celebrating 175 years of photography
World Photo Day 2014 (August 19th) marks a special anniversary for photographers across the globe. It marks the 175th anniversary of the first permanent photographic process patented and freely released to the world on August 19th, 1839.
Mid-Day meals programme in India is a massive social welfare programme aiming at attracting children in to the educational main stream and also providing them with all the much needed supplementary nutrition to make them healthy and worthy citizens of the country. Under this programme, freashly cooked mid-day meals are provided in all government and government aided primary schools with a view to protect children from hunger, increase school enrollment and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children. This is the world’s largest school feeding programme, reaching out to almost 150 million children in over 1.2 million schools daily across the country with a public expenditure of Rs. 132,150 million (GBP £1320 million) in 2013–14. Also, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midday_Meal_Scheme