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what are the advantages of midday meal programme implemented by the government?

  • The midday meal programme: The Mid-day Meal Scheme is the popular name for school meal programme in India which started in the 1960s. It involves provision of lunch free of cost to school-children on all working days.
  • Three benefits of the programme: More poor children have begun enrolling and regularly attending school. Teachers reported that earlier children would often go home for lunch and then not return to school but now with the midday meal being provided in school, their attendance has improved. Their mothers, who earlier had to interrupt their work to feed their children at home during the day, now no longer need to do so. This programme has also helped reduce caste prejudices because both lower and upper caste children in the school eat this meal together, and in quite a few places, Dalit women have been employed to cook the meal. The midday meal programme also helps reduce the hunger of poor students who often come to school and cannot concentrate because their stomachs are empty.
  • Promotion of gender equality : This scheme treats all the students, rich or poor alike.

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The advantages of midday meal programme are :-

1) The children who need to go back their homes during the lunch recess and don't return to school now come to the school regularly. This has improved the attendance report of the children.
2) Now, their mothers who had to leave their jobs and come to homes to feed  their children.
3) This has also solved the problem of gender and caste discrimination because in some school Dalit women are employed to make and serve food. Also some schools have children- both of upper caste and lower sit and eat together.
 3) It also solves the problem of children sitting empty-stomach in the class and not able to concentrate o their studies
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