HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme

India TV News  

The HRD Ministry on Thursday ruled out introduction of breakfast in the mid-day meal scheme offered by the government. The information was shared by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha on whether a plan is under consideration for introducing breakfasts in mid-day meals. As per the provisions of National Food Security Act, 2013, children studying in classes 1 to 8 or within the age group of 6-14 years are entitled to one mid day meal free of charge, every day except on school holidays, in all schools run by local bodies, government and government aided schools so as to meet nutritional standards specified in the Act," Nishank said. The National Programme of Mid-Day Meal in Schools, popularly known as the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, is an on-going centrally- On an average basis, 9.17 crore children studying in 11.34 lakh schools were served mid-day meal on each school working day during the year 2018-19.

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T’gana: Panel cites low payment for ‘poor’ mid-day meal
3 weeks, 3 days ago

T’gana: Panel cites low payment for ‘poor’ mid-day meal

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad The Telangana government, which has substantially enhanced the mess charges being paid to students of residential schools and welfare hostels by 40% since November 1 resulting in improved diet for them, has started taking measures to improve the quality of food being provided to students under the mid-day meal scheme in the state-run schools across the state, officials familiar …

Parents-Teachers meeting to foster students' academic success: Kollu
1 month ago

Parents-Teachers meeting to foster students' academic success: Kollu

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Minister Kollu Ravindra highlighted the state government’s efforts to ensure a promising academic future for students through a Mega Parents-Teachers Meeting. Speaking at the Municipal Girls Park High School in Machilipatnam on Saturday, Ravindra stressed the importance of connecting parents and teachers for students' holistic development. He noted that over 18 lakh students are enrolled in government schools, and …

3.70 lakh schoolkids in Punjab missed out on free mid-day meals last year
3 months, 1 week ago

3.70 lakh schoolkids in Punjab missed out on free mid-day meals last year

Hindustan Times  

More than 3.70 lakh children enrolled in government schools of Punjab missed out on nutritious mid-day meals during the academic year 2023-23. Of the 19.69 lakh children enrolled in pre-primary and elementary classes, 15.98 lakh students, or approximately 81%, were served mid-day meals on an average daily in government schools across the state under the centrally- At the primary level, …

Extended breakfast scheme launched in government-aided schools
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Extended breakfast scheme launched in government-aided schools

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu inaugurated the extended breakfast scheme in government-aided schools at Kamaraj Middle School at South Kallikulam in the district on Monday in the presence of District Collector K.P. “The breakfast scheme extended to the government-aided schools in Tirunelveli district will benefit 17,881 students in 416 schools in rural areas,” Mr. Appavu said. Kanimozhi launches scheme …

Summer vacation midday meals to be implemented from April 11 to May 28
9 months, 1 week ago

Summer vacation midday meals to be implemented from April 11 to May 28

The Hindu  

Due to drought in Karnataka, the State government has ordered to extend the midday meal programme to schoolchildren in 223 drought-prone taluks during the summer vacation for 41 days from April 11 to May 28 for government and aided school children of classes 1 to 8. A total of ₹88.4 crore for the summer vacation midday meals programme, of which …

Breakfast scheme has improved attendance, aptitude: State Planning Commission study
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Breakfast scheme has improved attendance, aptitude: State Planning Commission study

The Hindu  

A comprehensive study, ‘Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme: Impact on Children in Primary Classes in Government Schools’, undertaken by the State Planning Commission, has revealed that not only has classroom attendance gone up, but also the students have shown an improvement in aptitude following the implementation of the scheme. The study looked into aspects such as the effect of the breakfast …

Plan to start mid-day-meal for high school students of Sundargarh district
11 months, 1 week ago

Plan to start mid-day-meal for high school students of Sundargarh district

New Indian Express  

ROURKELA: If everything goes as expected, about 45,000 students of classes IX and X in government schools across the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district may start getting mid-day-meal in a week with the district administration making the requisite arrangements. Accordingly, about 45,000 students of 384 government high schools including Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas and aided high schools would be covered under MDM scheme. …

Punjab FM tells dept to form panel to study mid-day meal cooks’ salary
1 year ago

Punjab FM tells dept to form panel to study mid-day meal cooks’ salary

Hindustan Times  

Punjab Finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday directed the school education department to form a committee comprising officials of the education and finance departments, and representatives of mid-day meal cooks’ unions to study the various aspects related to the salary of mid-day meal cooks and present a report so that a decision to increase their salaries could be taken …

Chief Minister\'s Breakfast Scheme Launched in Telangana, To Benefit 23 Lakh Students
1 year, 3 months ago

Chief Minister\'s Breakfast Scheme Launched in Telangana, To Benefit 23 Lakh Students

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Led by IT minister K.T. Ministers T. Harish Rao, Patnam Mahender Reddy and education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy inaugurated the scheme at the Zilla Parishad High School in Raviryala, Rangareddy district. Inaugurating the scheme at a government high school in West Marredpally, Hyderabad, Rama Rao emphasised that the groundbreaking initiative would benefit 23 lakh students. Education minister Sabitha Indra …

Harish Rao launches CM\'s breakfast programme
1 year, 3 months ago

Harish Rao launches CM\'s breakfast programme

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Stating that the Chief Minister's breakfast scheme would help to reduce dropouts in primary schools, Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Friday said that the government spends Rs 400 crore per annum for providing breakfast for government school students and 20 lakh students would be benefited from it. Finance Minister Harish Rao and Education Minister P Sabita Indra Reddy …

Telangana CM's breakfast scheme will be launched for schoolchildren on Dasara
1 year, 3 months ago

Telangana CM's breakfast scheme will be launched for schoolchildren on Dasara

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government will launch a new scheme on October 24, commemorating Dasara, to provide free breakfast to government school students like the midday meals. Named ‘Chief Minister’s breakfast scheme’, it will be extended to school children in Classes 1 to 10 across government and local body schools on all working days. The director of school education has been …

When schools whet the appetite of students, and feed them
1 year, 4 months ago

When schools whet the appetite of students, and feed them

The Hindu  

For K. Devi, a mother of three, immense relief came from unexpected quarters a couple of weeks ago. Tamil Nadu is the first State to launch a free breakfast scheme for students of government primary schools, a massive public venture. In the first phase, the government inaugurated the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme at 1,545 primary schools run by the government, …

UP Schools Open Today For Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Mid-Day Meals To Be Arranged For Students
1 year, 4 months ago

UP Schools Open Today For Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Mid-Day Meals To Be Arranged For Students

News 18  

Under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav initiative, all Uttar Pradesh primary and secondary schools were asked to remain open today for the execution of the Har Ghar Tiranga and Meri Maati, Mera Desh initiatives. The Department Of Basic Education Uttar Pradesh put out a post on the microblogging site X, formerly known as Twitter that read, “This Sunday will be …

Mid-day meal scheme fund from centre used for elections in West Bengal
1 year, 6 months ago

Mid-day meal scheme fund from centre used for elections in West Bengal

Op India  

Ministry of Education on Friday wrote to the West Bengal government, flagging “financial anomalies” in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme. The Central government, in its letter to the WB government, said, “In this context, it may be appreciated that in January 2022 at the time of submission of proposal for release of 2nd installment during 2021-22, the state …

T.N. Budget | Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme to be expanded to all primary schools
1 year, 9 months ago

T.N. Budget | Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme to be expanded to all primary schools

The Hindu  

Encouraged by the increase in the attendance of students in schools in the wake of the launch of the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme, the State government has decided to expanded it to cover all the 30,122 government primary schools in the State from the upcoming academic year, announced Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan during the Budget for 2023-24, presented in …

Centre to send team to review implementation of Midday Meal scheme in Bengal
1 year, 11 months ago

Centre to send team to review implementation of Midday Meal scheme in Bengal

Hindustan Times  

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that the central government will soon send a team to review the implementation of the midday meal scheme in different parts of West Bengal. Centre to send team to review implementation of Midday Meal scheme in Bengal "On January 5, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari laid down a petition in front of …

Mid-day meal in U.P: ‘Sponsors of meals must not provide food but only cash’
2 years ago

Mid-day meal in U.P: ‘Sponsors of meals must not provide food but only cash’

Hindustan Times  

Members of the public will no longer be able to feed students of government primary schools under the mid-day meal scheme. For representation only Awadhesh Kumar Tiwari, special secretary, UP government said, “If any member of the community wishes to give cash for ‘Tithi Bhojan’, it will be deposited in the account of mid-day meal fund/school management committee. The person …

Mid-day meal scheme: what’s really being served?
2 years, 3 months ago

Mid-day meal scheme: what’s really being served?

The Hindu  

The mid-day meal scheme is considered to be one of the government’s most successful initiatives. While this has led to increased school attendance, data and social audits reveal that the food being served is sometimes unhygienic, cold, contaminated, or nutritionally inadequate. In this episode, The Hindu speaks with experts on the benefits of the mid-day meals scheme, what they’ve seen …

Eat and learn: The Hindu Editorial on Tamil Nadu’s breakfast scheme in schools
2 years, 3 months ago

Eat and learn: The Hindu Editorial on Tamil Nadu’s breakfast scheme in schools

The Hindu  

Sometimes the ability of a government to find resources for a good scheme is only limited by its intent. The Tamil Nadu government’s launch of the free breakfast scheme for schoolchildren is an instance of a policy initiative with far-reaching consequences for school education and public health. School performance improves, as do behaviour and cognition, but a regular breakfast also …

Tamil Nadu’s new breakfast scheme in schools
2 years, 3 months ago

Tamil Nadu’s new breakfast scheme in schools

The Hindu  

The story so far: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Thursday, at the Madurai Corporation Primary School Aathimoolam II in Simmakal, Madurai, launched the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme for students of Class I to V in government schools. Besides, as a consequence of the collaborative implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the nutritious meal programme, around …

Breakfast scheme should not be counted as freebie, charity or gift: M.K. Stalin
2 years, 3 months ago

Breakfast scheme should not be counted as freebie, charity or gift: M.K. Stalin

The Hindu  

After assuming the office of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu by swearing “I, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin” last year, I feel, Thursday’s inauguration of the Breakfast Scheme for students of classes I to V, will remain in the golden pages of history and bring a positive change in the lives of my people. Exactly, 102 years ago, on September 16, one …

Over 4,000 students to benefit from Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme in Madurai
2 years, 3 months ago

Over 4,000 students to benefit from Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme in Madurai

The Hindu  

Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme is a trailblazing effort in keeping intact the Dravidian movement’s ideology that poverty or caste must not be an obstacle to one’s education, Chief Minister M.K. Speaking at the launch of the scheme at Adhimoolam Corporation Primary School here on Thursday, he said inaugurating the scheme at the school located at Keela Anna Thoppu was like …

Tamil Nadu CM’s breakfast scheme to be introduced in 112 elementary schools in Dharmapuri’s Palacode
2 years, 4 months ago

Tamil Nadu CM’s breakfast scheme to be introduced in 112 elementary schools in Dharmapuri’s Palacode

The Hindu  

The Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme is proposed to be introduced in the elementary schools in Palacode to benefit more than 6,500 students. The breakfast scheme was announced by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin in May this year, to cover all students of elementary classes of 1 to 5 in government schools. The scheme is being introduced in the light of …

Govt likely to revise midday meals’ daily cooking cost
2 years, 7 months ago

Govt likely to revise midday meals’ daily cooking cost

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The daily cost of cooking midday meals in schools across India is likely to be raised by the central government once a panel reviewing the matter submits its report, people familiar with the development said. The midday meal scheme covers at least 118 million students enroled in classes 1-8 across 1.1 million schools. In the recently held meeting …

Mid-day meals: Kids get broken rice, watery dal
2 years, 9 months ago

Mid-day meals: Kids get broken rice, watery dal

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government pays Rs 4.97 per primary class student for mid-day meals and Rs 7.45 for every student in the upper primary classes and high school. Manna Trust said that it prepares the food at a centralised kitchen in the city and serves white rice and five different types of curries, one for each day of the week, …

Mid-day Meal Scheme to include millets
2 years, 11 months ago

Mid-day Meal Scheme to include millets

India Today  

Mid-day meal will include millets soon, said the Minister of State for Education, Annpurna Devi in a written reply to Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Central Government requested State Governments/Union Territory Administrations under PM POSHAN Scheme to include millet in the midday meal in order to enhance nutrition among children. Plan to introduce millets in mid-day meal NITI Aayog conducted …

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals
3 years, 3 months ago

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals

The Hindu  

The approval of the PM POSHAN scheme by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs until 2025-26 comes at a critical time when real income declines and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the ability of families to ensure good nutrition. The centrally supported hot meal programme in Government and Government-aided schools, covering 11.8 crore children, will be …

What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Christened as PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries
3 years, 3 months ago

What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Christened as PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries

News 18  

The Mid-Day Meal Scheme has been renamed as ‘PM Poshan Shakti’ as the Centre pushes for child nutrition in the country, with the addition of around 24 lakh students from the pre-primary government and government-aided schools. The mid-day meal plan at present provides hot cooked food to students from Class 1 to 8 in all 11.20 lakh government and government-aided …

Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students
3 years, 3 months ago

Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students

The Hindu  

The Centre has rebranded the 26-year old national mid-day meal scheme to give a hot cooked meal to 11.8 crore government school students from Class 1 to 8, with the Cabinet approving a proposal to rename it as the PM POSHAN scheme on September 29. Although this year’s budget for mid-day meals remains unchanged, an additional ₹266 crore is expected …

'No Arbitrariness': Kerala High Court Upholds Lakshadweep Admin Decision To Close Dairy Farms, Modify Mid Day Meals
3 years, 3 months ago

'No Arbitrariness': Kerala High Court Upholds Lakshadweep Admin Decision To Close Dairy Farms, Modify Mid Day Meals

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court while disposing of a Public Interest Litigation assailing the reforms introduced by the new Lakshadweep Administration, reiterated that a writ court can only consider a policy matter if there was any arbitrariness, illegality or unfairness on the part of the authority while exercising the power conferred under law.Dismissing the PIL, a Division Bench of Chief Justice. …

'Children come hungry to school, breakfast could make a difference' | The Hindu In Focus Podcast
3 years, 4 months ago

'Children come hungry to school, breakfast could make a difference' | The Hindu In Focus Podcast

The Hindu  

Earlier this month, the Union Education Ministry told a parliamentary panel that the plan to serve breakfast to students in government schools had to be shelved as the Finance Ministry had refused to sanction the Rs. The refusal comes at a time when the country is facing a malnutrition crisis -- data from the latest National Family Health Survey shows …

11.8 cr students to benefit from financial help by government under Mid-Day Meal scheme
3 years, 7 months ago

11.8 cr students to benefit from financial help by government under Mid-Day Meal scheme

India Today  

To help safeguard the nutritional levels of children, the central government has decided to provide financial help to 11.8 crore students under the Mid-Day Meal scheme through Direct Benefit Transfer of the cooking cost for the meals. This is in addition to the Government of India’s announcement of distribution of free-of-cost food grains at Rs 5/kg per person per month …

UP govt to give mid-day meal allowance and food grains to primary students in Covid-19 lockdown
3 years, 7 months ago

UP govt to give mid-day meal allowance and food grains to primary students in Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

The Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Department has decided to give food grains and mid-day meal allowance for primary school students during the Covid-19 lockdown period. How much mid-day meal allowance will students get? Mid-day meal allowance A mid-day meal allowance was supposed to be issued from September 2020 to February 2021 but wasn’t possible because of the panchayat elections and …

35% Kids Not Getting Mid-day Meals; UP Worst, Chhattisgarh Best, Goa Awaits Nod from Own Dept
4 years, 3 months ago

35% Kids Not Getting Mid-day Meals; UP Worst, Chhattisgarh Best, Goa Awaits Nod from Own Dept

News 18  

During the lockdown, various governments issued orders on the delivery of the mid-day meals to school students. “35% children are not receiving mid-day meals,” said the report authored by Ankit Vyas with a team of other researchers and contributors: Binod Sinha, Pratiush Prakash, Santosh Patra and Prakash Gardia among others. In addition to being a site of learning, a government …

National Education Policy 2020 | Breakfast for school children besides mid-day meals
4 years, 5 months ago

National Education Policy 2020 | Breakfast for school children besides mid-day meals

The Hindu  

The mid-day meals provided to students in government or aided schools should be supplemented by breakfast, the new National Education Policy 2020 has proposed. “Health check-ups and growth monitoring that are available in the anganwadi system shall also be made available to preparatory Class students of anganwadi as well as of primary schools,” the policy document said. The National Programme …

New Education Policy 2020: Breakfast for School Children Besides Mid-day Meals
4 years, 5 months ago

New Education Policy 2020: Breakfast for School Children Besides Mid-day Meals

News 18  

The mid-day meals provided to students in government or aided schools should be supplemented by breakfast, the new National Education Policy has proposed. "All school children shall undergo regular health check-ups especially for 100 pc immunization in schools and health cards will be issued to monitor the same," the policy said. "Health check-ups and growth monitoring that are available in …

Meals that can educate the young
5 years, 1 month ago

Meals that can educate the young

The Hindu  

Two decades have passed since the mid-day meal became a part of the daily routine in government schools nationwide. The two videos made it to the national media; they also proved useful for the officers who supervise the mid-day meal scheme since they also depend on unauthorised videographers to learn about the reality in schools. Making it part of curriculum …

The case for mid-day meals for all
5 years, 1 month ago

The case for mid-day meals for all

Live Mint  

When the results of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey released last month showed high levels of malnutrition and nutrient deficient in India’s school-going children and adolescents, it raised the question: does India need a better, truly universal school lunch programme? The 2011-12 National Sample Survey data shows, 10% of the meals that all primary school-age children in rural India receive …

Govt schools' kids to create their own kitchen garden as a part of mid-day meal scheme in UP
5 years, 5 months ago

Govt schools' kids to create their own kitchen garden as a part of mid-day meal scheme in UP

India Today  

In a novel experiment, students of all government schools in Uttar Pradesh will now create their own kitchen garden and grow fruits and vegetables of their choice. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has issued instructions to all the government schools, up to Class 8, to include the produce from the kitchen gardens in the mid-day meal. Allocation of budget …

Private schools mandated to admit 15 percent students from weaker sections
5 years, 6 months ago

Private schools mandated to admit 15 percent students from weaker sections

India TV News  

All private and special category schools are mandated to admit in Class 1 or below at least 25 percent students belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. "Section 12 of the Act mandates all private aided, Special Category schools and private unaided schools to admit in Class …

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme

India Today  

The HRD Ministry on Thursday ruled out introduction of breakfast in the mid-day meal scheme offered by the government. As per the provisions of National Food Security Act, 2013, children studying in classes 1 to 8 or within the age group of 6-14 years are entitled to one mid day meal free of charge, every day except on school holidays, …

Imposing a food culture
5 years, 6 months ago

Imposing a food culture

The Hindu  

THE Mid-Day Meal Scheme is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India. The circular states: “The NGOs that are involved in the implementation of mid-day meals scheme across the State are supplying same kind of food every day to schools, using same kind of vegetables every day and instead of using food …

Kids who eat midday meal have better reading, math test scores: Researchers
5 years, 10 months ago

Kids who eat midday meal have better reading, math test scores: Researchers

India Today  

According to researchers of Indian-origin, the primary school children who ate midday meals over an extended period were shown to have significantly better learning outcomes. Effects of India's midday meal scheme: The researchers studied the effects of India's midday meal scheme - the world's largest free school lunch programme - feeding over 120 million children every day. Better reading skills: …

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