Mid-day Meal Scheme

Development Report (HDR); India is ranked 135 among 187 countries. This is mostly due to the miserable condition of our education, health and living standards. India’s booming population makes it difficult for children from poor and marginalized communities to afford and/or access basic education and healthcare. This later has far-reaching consequences for the country. The Mid Day Meal Scheme…

needed to sustain through the school day contributing to student’s academic success. The government should mandate free meals just as school attendance is mandated in early childhood education programs. In Rapides Parish and guardians face legal action if a child is truant for continuing to arrive to class late or misses more than fourteen school days. If early childhood education is important to the government to the point that a parent’s freedom is used as leverage to ensure attendance, why…

Education”, YOJANA January 2016, p50.] [Ref- YOJANA, January 2016, p50.] The scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) provides for, free and compulsory elementary education to all children from the six to fourteen years of age by 2010, school infrastructure and quality development in children in the field of education, under this scheme, the Mid-Day Meal scheme is also enforced.[Ft Nt- Satpathy, Chinmayee, “Child Welfare Policies and Programmes in India”, YOJANA, November 2012, p26] [Ref- YOJANA,…

hunger take place in the country where many schemes of food and nutrition security are regularly run on a grant of billions of rupees. Under the mid-day meal schemes, about 12 million children are claimed to be fed meals every day. Crores of government funds are spent in the name of providing food and employment to every person. Still, as per the United Nations data, about 10 lakh children die before reaching the age of five due to hunger or malnutrition every year in the country. As many as…

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People want criminals to pay for the crime that they have committed. Some people commit misdemeanors, which carry a maximum of twelve months in jail or less and are crimes like assault, theft, and traffic violations. Other people commit felonies which carry more than twelve months in jail and are crimes like murder, rape, and arson. Misdemeanors are less serious crimes compared to felonies. (“Infractions, Misdemeanors And Felonies- What 's The ...” n.d.). People who commit felonies will usually…

contributing to anaemia. Poverty and reproductive behaviour of having too many children and repeated pregnancies deplete iron stores of women. Low status of women and Illiteracy are other important social factor. Prevention and Treatment * Diet therapy - Food- based approaches represent the most desirable and sustainable method of preventing micronutrient malnutrition. In practice food-based approaches should first address the production, preservation, processing, marketing and preparation of…

trap. Social protection is a very important instrument to provide even the basic necessary services of education, health care, environmental health etc. It ensures that all the people will get equal opportunity to have or to access the essential goods and services, to eliminate the social and economic prejudices.  CURRENT TRENDS IN SOCIAL PROTECTION DISCOURSE • In 1980s, the social protection was considered only as a residual support to the people who are in extreme poverty and for them it…

It gets the assets of society (young generation) a liability for the government. Malnutrition is a serious concern for the country which needs to be curbed with immediate effect. There is a need for better targeting of government schemes with user friendly mechanism and awareness among the public. At that place could be much cause for malnourished deaths from poverty to government policy, to low production, to the high cost of food items, to lack of good quality food particles, to lack of…

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