Mid-Day Meal Scheme.....A New Hope!
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!
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.
In mid 1995, the government of India introduced a centrally sponsored scheme, the national programme of nutritional support to primary education. Under this programme, cooked mid-day meals were to be introduced 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.
Enrolment in primary schools (classes I – V) has steadily increased from 107.1 million in 1995-96, the year in which Mid Day Meal Scheme was introduced, to 130.8 million in 2004-05. Similarly, drop out rate (Primary) is also decreased from 42.07% in 1995-96 to 29.00% in 2004-05.
The government of India has set aside Rs 11,937 crore (USD$ 2400 million approx) for the Mid Day Meal Scheme during 2012-13 financial year. This is the world’s largest school feeding programme, reaching out to almost 150 million children in over 1.2 million schools across the country.
Source: pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=33684
Images of Bengal, India
Mid-Day Meal Scheme.....A New Hope!
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!
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.
In mid 1995, the government of India introduced a centrally sponsored scheme, the national programme of nutritional support to primary education. Under this programme, cooked mid-day meals were to be introduced 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.
Enrolment in primary schools (classes I – V) has steadily increased from 107.1 million in 1995-96, the year in which Mid Day Meal Scheme was introduced, to 130.8 million in 2004-05. Similarly, drop out rate (Primary) is also decreased from 42.07% in 1995-96 to 29.00% in 2004-05.
The government of India has set aside Rs 11,937 crore (USD$ 2400 million approx) for the Mid Day Meal Scheme during 2012-13 financial year. This is the world’s largest school feeding programme, reaching out to almost 150 million children in over 1.2 million schools across the country.
Source: pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=33684
Images of Bengal, India