Mid-Day meal scheme ◆The scheme guarantees one meal to all ch | UPSC Civil Services (IAS)
Mid-Day meal scheme
◆The scheme guarantees one meal to all children in government and aided schools and madarsas supported under Samagra Shiksha
◆Students up to Class VIII are guaranteed one nutritional cooked meal at least 200 days in a year.
◆Under the Ministry of HRD.
◆launched in the year 1995 as the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP – NSPE), a centrally sponsored scheme. In 2004, the scheme was relaunched as the Mid Day Meal Scheme.
◆The cost of the MDMS is shared between the central and state governments.
