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The public expenditure for the Mid Day Meal Programme has gone up from ₹ 73.24 billion (US$850 million) in 2007–08 to ₹ 132.15 billion (US$1.5 billion) in 2013–14. [32] In 2020–21, the Midday Meal Scheme budget comprised 11% of the total budget for the Ministry of Education. [30]
Meanwhile, activists and concerned citizens are expressing apprehension over the fate of the mid-day meal programme that has reportedly served over 4 billion meals over the last 20 years. Students from over 19,000 schools across the country receive food from APF that is considered to be of hygienic quality, and the programme is one of the ...
Nutritional Support to women and children : Pregnant women and lactating mothers and children in the age group of 6 months to 14 years will be entitled to meals as per prescribed nutritional norms under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and Mid-Day Meal (MDM) schemes. Higher nutritional norms have been prescribed for malnourished ...
The Ministry of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection is a ministry of the Government of Maharashtra. The ministry is responsible for consumer protection and regulating food and civil supply issues in Maharashtra. [2] The Ministry is headed by a cabinet level minister.
Shrivardhan is located in Raigad District of State of Maharashtra. [3] The distance between Shrivardhan and Harihareshwar is 18 km and they are often considered to be twin cities . Diveagar is a quieter place than both cities, which has garnered it recent notice which has initiated its transformation into a popular tourist destination.
The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was introduced in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan [1] (1974–78), to provide certain basic minimum needs and improve the living standards of people. [2]
The organization began its digital education program in 2006 when it started creating educational content for government schools. Prior to this, it was involved in providing mid-day meals to various government schools in Bangalore and had also started a food-bank programme.
During the COVID pandemic, in 2020, Keshav Srushti My Green Society along with Jankalyan Samiti undertook the 'Annapurna Scheme' to serve meals to 1.2 lakh needy people, in 24 wards of Mumbai city, through 17 community kitchens. The food packets were distributed through the BMC, the RSS network of NGOs and other volunteer organizations.