Congress President Sonia Gandhi has made a strong demand in Parliament for the resumption of mid-day meals in schools that have been opened after a prolonged shutdown due to the Covid epidemic.
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The Mid-Day Meal Scheme was put on hold during the school closure due to the COVID pandemic. Children were given dry rations during the pandemic and food grains were also provided under the ‘National Food Security Act’. But dry ration for children is not a substitute for hot cooked food.
About Mid-Day Meal Scheme: The Hindu Analysis
The scheme ensures one time meal for all children in government schools, aided schools and madrassas aided under ‘Samagra Shiksha’.
Under this scheme, students up to class VIII are provided cooked nutritious food for at least 200 days in a year.
This scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
This scheme was implemented as a centrally sponsored scheme on 15th August, 1995 across the country.
It was started as National Program of Nutritional Support to Primary Education: NP- NSPE.
In the year 2004, this program was relaunched as Mid-Day Meal Scheme.
Objective: The Hindu Analysis
Eliminating hunger and malnutrition, increasing school enrollment and attendance, improving socialization among different castes, providing employment at the grassroots level, especially women.
As per Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) Rules 2015: The Hindu Analysis
Children will be served food only in the school.
If midday meal is not provided in the school on any day due to non-availability of food grains or any other reason, the State Government will pay Food Security Allowance by 15th of the following month.
The School Management Committee mandated under the Right of Children to free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 will oversee the implementation of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme.
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Nutritional Standards: The Hindu Analysis
According to the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) guidelines, a minimum of 450 calories of energy and 12 grams of protein will be given per day for the lower primary level, and a minimum of 700 calories of energy and 20 grams of protein is provided for the upper primary level.
According to MHRD, 100 grams of food grains, 20 grams of pulses, 50 grams of vegetables and 5 grams of oil and fat will be included in the diet of children of primary classes.
In the diet of children of upper-primary schools, 150 grams of food grains, 30 grams of pulses, 75 grams of vegetables and 7.5 grams of oil and fat have been made mandatory.
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