The mid-day meal scheme will now be known as PM POSHAN, with the Centre initiating a major political push pivoted around ‘child nutrition', and announcing that around 24 lakh students receiving pre-primary education at government and government-aided schools will also be brought under the ambit of the scheme from next year.
The scheme seeks to focus on the nutrition of the children in the country besides attracting the students to school and retaining thereby reducing the dropout rate.
The scheme has revamped the existing mid-day meal scheme that was launched in 1995 under the Narasimha Rao Government.
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