Port Blair, June 21: To increase the nutritional value of classroom meals, the Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM has sanctioned boiled eggs twice a week to all children covered under the mid day meal scheme in the Islands from the academic session 2012-2013. The addition of boiled eggs will increase the nutritional value of the mid day meal provided to the school children in the islands. Children enrolled in the Pre-Primary/Primary/Upper Primary stages of schools run by Administration, Administration-aided and schools run by Zilla Parishad/PRIs will be benefitted under the scheme. About 43,000 students across the Islands will be benefitted and an amount to the tune of Rs 180 lakhs is likely to be incurred as expenditure.
As per MHRD norms, noon meal is provided to each student on each working day comprising Rice, Dal and Vegetables having nutritional value. The Mid Day Meal Scheme is one of the National level flagship programmes of MHRD, GOI to boost the universalization of Elementary Education. The main objective of the scheme is to address classroom hunger and encourage poor children belonging to disadvantage group to attend school regularly and to improve nutritional status of the children in class I-VIII in schools.
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