MID DAY MEAL SCHEME
- May 29, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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MID DAY MEAL SCHEME
Subject : Government Schemes
Context : The Union Minister for Education has approved the proposal to provide monetary assistance to 11.8 Crore students through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of the cooking cost component of the Mid-Day-Meal Scheme, to all eligible children, as a special welfare measure.
Concept :
- With a view to enhancing enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 1995.
- In 2001 MDMS became a cooked Mid Day Meal Scheme.
- The Midday Meal Scheme comes under the HRD Ministry’s Department of School Education and Literacy.
- The Mid-Day Meal Scheme covers children of classes I-VIII studying in government, government-aided schools, special training centres (STC) and madarsas/ maqtabs supported under SarvaShikshaAbhiyan (SSA).
- It is the largest school feeding programme in the world.
- The scheme covers all government and government aided schools and also Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under the SarvaShikshaAbhiyan (SSA).
- The Midday Meal Scheme is covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013.