CURRENT AFFAIRS
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Description
An Indonesian team is investigating collaboration with India on a variety of programs, including a mid-day food program and digital inclusion.
About The Mid-Day Meal Scheme
- It is the world's largest school feeding initiative of its kind, serving students in Classes 1 through 8 (ages 6-14).
Background
In 1925, the Madras Municipal Corporation implemented a Mid-Day Meal Programme for disadvantaged children.
It was launched in India on August 15, 1995 as the 'National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE)'.
In October 2007, it was renamed the 'National Programme of Mid-Day Meal in Schools', popularly known as the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme.
Under the initiative, all children (from Class I to VIII) registered in government schools, local body schools, government-aided schools, special training centers (STC), maktabs, and madrasas supported by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan receive a hot cooked meal every day.
Objectives
Increase enrollment in schools for children from poor backgrounds.
Increase attendance and retention among children in classes I through VIII in government and government-aided institutions.
To provide nutritional support to elementary school children, particularly in drought-affected areas.
To treat poverty and malnutrition while also improving caste socialisation.
Implementation- Each State/UT must establish State Steering and Monitoring Committees (SSMCs) at the State, District, and Block levels to oversee its implementation.
Funding- The scheme is centrally sponsored. As a result, the cost is split 60:40 between the Centre and the States in states and UTs with legislatures, and 90:10 in the Northeastern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, while the Centre bears all costs in UTs without legislatures.
- Nodal Ministry- Ministry of Education.
In September 2021, it was renamed the Pradhan Mantri POSHAN Scheme.
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