Noon meal scheme in the month of MAY itself - School students in TN to get rice, eggs etc
Posted on: 28/May/2021 9:18:50 AM
More than 40 lakhs of children who are studying in the state run schools in TN would get food grains like rice, dhal, eggs etc for the May month quota. This would be as part of the noon meal scheme.
Normally, the month of May is considered as summer vacation time as all the schools would be closed. In the months of June or July (after schools reopen) only the noon meals scheme would begin for the sake of the students. The government of TN has taken into account the lockdown plus the situation of the economically poor students and have taken the decision to provide dry rations.
As per the request, the TN government had agreed to provide dry rations in the month of May for the students. This was said by a senior officer belonging to the school education department.
He later spoke about how as per the guidelines of Centre, in order to safeguard immunity that is vital in the Covid-19 outbreak and to meet the nutritional needs of the eligible kids under the mid day meal scheme, the distribution of rations would help them to keep good health.
From the go down to various schools, food grains have already been transported. This was according to a senior official who was in-charge of distributing dry rations. Truth is that this noon meal scheme would be of tremendous benefit for more than 23lakhs kids studying in the primary schools. Students studying in the upper primary sections in government as well as government-aided schools in TN would also get benefited by this superb scheme. The nutritional value would be made more by the addition of eggs for these children.
It is now revealed that the parents of these students would be asked to come and collect dry rations from the schools of the children.
