Restart mid-day meals in schools, says Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha
India Today
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday asked the government to restart mid-day meals as schools across the country were re-opening.
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday urged the Central government to restart the mid-day meal scheme in government schools, noting that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected children the most.
"Schools were the first institutions to be closed and the last to be reopened," Gandhi said during the Question Hour in Lok Sabha.
"With the closure of schools during Covid pandemic, the system of mid-day meals was also stopped," she said.
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The mid-day meal scheme, renamed PM-Poshan last year, provides one hot cooked meal to students in government and government-aided schools. It is a centrally-sponsored scheme that benefits students from classes 1 to 8.
