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The Mid Day Meal Scheme was launched in India on August 15, 1995, to combat malnutrition and improve educational outcomes among school children. It aims to enhance enrollment, attendance, and learning levels by providing cooked meals to students in primary and upper primary classes across Maharashtra. The scheme has been expanded over the years to cover various educational institutions and is now implemented statewide.

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The Mid Day Meal Scheme was launched in India on August 15, 1995, to combat malnutrition and improve educational outcomes among school children. It aims to enhance enrollment, attendance, and learning levels by providing cooked meals to students in primary and upper primary classes across Maharashtra. The scheme has been expanded over the years to cover various educational institutions and is now implemented statewide.

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Mid Day Meal Scheme

Introduction :
Malnutrition was widely prevalent in India among growing children
Nutritional deficiencies and their incidences among children of school going
age group cannot be neglected. Malnutrition not only gives rise to morbidity
and mortality, but also prevents a child from developing in a fully functional
adult. It adversely affects education in the following ways;
i) A malnourished child is less likely to attend school regularly.
ii) Even if such a child does attend school, he/she finds is difficult to
concentrate on and participate in teaching-learning activities well enough.
He/She therefore, tends to drop out inter alias, because of the inability to
cope up with.
iii) Even if the child does not actually drop out, his attainment levels tend to
be low.
Programme of providing Mid-Day Meal in Schools is designed to help
UEE in the following ways:
i) By improving enrolment and regularity of attendance.
ii) By reducing drop-out and
iii) By improving children's level of learning and self-esteem.

National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education


(commonly known as the Mid-Day Meal Scheme) was launched as a Centrally-
Sponsored Scheme on 15th August, 1995. Its objective was to boost
Universalisation of Primary Education' by increasing enrolment, retention and
attendance and simultaneously impacting on nutrition of students in primary
classes.
It is being implemented in Maharashtra since 1995-96 onwards.
However, the nature of scheme was changed in the right decision of Hon.
Supreme Court in Writ Petition No. 196/2001, wherein instead of dry rice the
cooked meal was to be given to children on all school days. In 2002, the
scheme was implemented in 15 tribal districts of Maharashtra; however, the
scope of implementation was extended to all districts of Maharashtra in
January, 2003. The scheme implemented for children in Std I to V in
Government schools, schools run by local bodies, Government aided private
schools and students enrolled in Education Guarantee Scheme Centre i.e.
Vastishalas and Alternative and innovative Education Centre i.e. Mahatma
Phule Education Guarantee Scheme Centers.
As per Government of India Guidelines, Mid-day Meal Scheme is
extended by Govt. of Maharashtra to cover children in upper primary (VI-VIII)
classes in 43 educationally backward blocks in 10 districts of Maharashtra
State from 1st January 2008.
Now this scheme is being implemented all over Maharashtra state from
September, 08 and onwards.

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