Authors
Pradeep Sharma
Abstract
This paper focuses on the analysis of the mid-day meal program and its impact on the academic performance of students. The correlation between the attainment of educational and economic growth, have the policies that effectively and efficiently decreases the barriers financially to the primary school education in the cases of developing countries which are of extreme interest to government and non-government organizations. The Government of India implemented a program of school feeding in 1995 to incentivize children to attend the primary school through the subsidized mid- day meal provision. The study of the mid-day meal scheme is done in this by predicting the impact of program on the enrollment of primary school. Keywords: Mid-day meal program,, Primary school,, Subsidized
Introduction
In 1960s, the Mid Day meal scheme is majorly for school meal program in India which includes the lunch provision that is free of cost to school children on all working days. As per the recent statistics, 42.5% of the children which are under 5 years of age are considered as underweight. The main reason for this is not using the iodized salt. According to some researchers that “India is the home to world’s largest population, having more than 200 million people who are hungry these days”.
The mid-day meal scheme is meal program in school of Indian Government that is designed to rise the nutritional status of school going children nationwide. This particular program supplies lunch free on working days for children in primary and upper primary class in Government, Government aided, local body, Guarantee scheme of education, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and National Child Labor Project (Ravi and Agnihotri,2016).
As according to the India State Hunger Index (ISHI): that the poor performance of the country is driven by its high levels of child who are under-nutrition and have counts of poor calorie. The malnutrition of child in India is higher than most of the countries in Sub- Saharan Africa. As per the 2008 report, people of India suffers more hunger than any other countries in the world and also0 states that improving the nutrition of child is considered as of utmost urgency in most of the states of India.
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