Delhi Government To Hire Agency To Test Mid-Day Meals To Ensure Nutritional Food For Students
NDTV
The midday meal or PM-POSHAN scheme, under which hot cooked meals are served to address the nutritional needs of children, covers government and government-aided school students of Classes 1-8, as well as pre-primary classes.
Delhi government will hire an agency to test mid-day meals served in its schools to ensure that the meals meet the prescribed standards of quality and nutritional value, according to officials. The midday meal or PM-POSHAN scheme, under which hot cooked meals are served to address the nutritional needs of children, covers government and government-aided school students of Classes 1-8, as well as pre-primary classes.
During closure of schools due to the pandemic, the food security allowance was continued through the distribution of dry ration kits.
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"The government will hire an agency which will pick random samples from schools as well as the kitchens and godowns. Samples of both the cooked food as well as raw materials will be tested at regular intervals," an official of the Directorate of Education (DoE) said.
