The mid-day meal scheme will now be known as Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Yojana (PM POSHAN).
Context
The mid-day meal scheme will now be known as Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Yojana (PM POSHAN).
Key points of the scheme
- The PM POSHAN scheme has been launched for an initial period of five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
- It will incorporate with the existing Mid Day Meal Scheme.
- The Scheme has a provision for supplementary nutrition for children in aspirational districts and those districts which are with high prevalence of anaemia.
Beneficiaries
- Under this scheme, hot cooked food will be given to the students from Classes 1 to 8 in government and government-aided schools.
- It is likely to benefit about 11.80 crore children studying in 11.20 lakh schools.
- Mid-day meals will be extended to students studying in pre-primary or Balvatikas government aided schools.
- Balvatika is the pre-school that was started in government schools which includes children aged younger than six years.
Mid day meal scheme
- The mid day meal scheme is the centrally sponsored scheme.
- It was launched in India on 15 August 1995 named as 'National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE)'.
- It was renamed as ' 'National Programme of Mid Day Meal in Schools' also known as the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme in 2007.
- The scheme is considered as the world’s largest school meal programme.
- In this scheme the government provided cooked meals to every child who enrolls and attends the school within the age group of six to fourteen years studying in classes I to VIII.
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Other Related Government Initiatives
- Anemia Mukt Bharat Abhiyan
- National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013
- Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
- Poshan Abhiyaan
