Mid-Day Meal Scheme – Economics – Free PDF Download

Current Affair

• 2 decades
• Hurdles in procurement

Scheme

• Centrally Sponsored Scheme
• National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education
• Enhance enrolment, retention and attendance
• Improve nutritional levels

Corrupt practices

• Some videos were leaked
• Government norms are different
• Lack of supervision

Stories appearing in media

• Bad food
• Cheating
• Cast bias and discrimination

Why it should be made a part of curriculum???

• Data sorting
• Collective eating
• Weekly record

Similarity with other schemes

• Increase in the demand for private schools
• Mid day meal associated with poverty
• Insist on the cheapest
• Northern states- strictly depend on central funds

UNICEF’s open letter???

• To the world’s children
• 30 years of promulgation of children’s rights
• Eight reasons each of worry and hope
• Acknowledge the present situation
• Loss of trust in institutions
• Local thoughts

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