Ramanath, L.
(2017)
The Mid-day Meal scheme.
Learning Curve (27).
pp. 67-68.
Abstract
The Mid Day Meal (MDM) scheme is an initiative that directly aimed to decrease the nutrition
gaps of children especially in the pre-primary and primary age groups. It was started ‘with a
view to positively impact enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving
nutritional levels among children’ (MHRD website). In 2001, the MDM scheme became a cooked
mid-day meal program ‘under which every child in every government and government-aided
primary school was to be served a prepared mid-day meal with a minimum of 300 calories of
energy and 8-12 grams protein’ (MHRD website). This was raised to 450 calories and 12 grams
protein in July 2006.
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