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18/09/22 06:25 AM IST

Tamil Nadu launches breakfast scheme for students at government schools

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  • Tamil Nadu’s midday meals scheme, conceptualised by the Justice Party in 1920 under the British regime and enhanced by successive state governments post-Independence, took on a new dimension recently with the launch of a programme to provide free breakfasts for government school students from Class 1 to Class 5.
About the scheme 
  • Aim:Encourage children to continue to come to school and help prevent dropouts at the primary level.
  • The government has targeted providing schoolchildren with an average of 293 calories and an average protein input of 9.85 gm (nine point eight five) per day.
  • Under the scheme, children in government schools from Class I to Class V will get nutritious breakfast provided in their schools every morning.
Importance 
  • Multiple studies across the globe indicate that eating breakfast regularly confers positive outcomes on students, affecting their ability to focus, learn and retain information positively.
  • School performance improves, as do behaviour and cognition, but a regular breakfast also takes care of diet quality, micronutrient sufficiency, anaemia and height and weight issues in children, and is even believed to sculpt BMI scores for the future.
  • The scheme will take care of hunger, the calorific, energy and micronutrient requirements of the children, with a diet rich in local preparations and vegetables, it also has to provide adequate attention to taste and quality parameters. 
Source- The Hindu 

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