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MidDay meal have big effects on school participation, not just in terms of getting more children enrolled in the registers gut also in terms of regular pupil attendance on a daily basis. Many children reach school on empty stomach. Children who do not have lunch box are not able to concentrate on study. Midday meal can help to overcome this problem by preventing classroom hunger. It acts as regular source of supplementary nutrition for children and facilitates their healthy growth. It helps to learn to sit together and share on common meal. It is erode the barriers that prevent girls from going to school.
MID - DAY MEAL SCHEME: A STUDY OF DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF DISTRICT JAMMU
SRJHSEL/MOHD ZUBAIR KALES ( 456 - 469 ) JUNE - JULY, 2014. VOL. I/IV www.srjis.com Page 456 MID - DAY MEAL SCHEME: A STUDY OF DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF DISTRICT JAMMU Mohd Zubair Kales , Ph D. Associate Professor (Education) Govt. College of Education Canal Road, JAMMU (J&K) Four important areas are identified for achieving the goal of Educatio n for all. These are Access to Education, Enrolment of children, and Retention of the enrolled children As well as in academic achievement. The Mid Day Meal scheme is an effort to achieve and fa cilitate these objectives. Various schemes were implemented in the primary education sector by the Government to reach the disadvantaged population. Access to primary education was universalized through flagship programmes of Govt., like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, however, despite this; a few children are still deprived of Primary Education due to inability of their parents to send them to schools because of their poor economical status. For, these parents, sending their children to school means not only incurring extra financial burden but also depriving them of some mon ey which their children would have earned otherwise by doing labour. That being the attitude of these economically backward parents, one may, perhaps, to motivate the parents and children was to bring their children to school by providing food and nutritio nal needs.
AN EVAUATIVE STUDY OF MID-DAY MEAL PROGRAMME IN CHANDIGARH AND PANCHKULA
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An empirical Study of the Mid-Day Meal programme in Khurda, Orissa
Economic & Political Weekly, 2008
The mid-day meal programme was initiated as a means of achieving universal primary education of satisfactory quality for all schoolchildren below the age of 14 by increasing enrolment, improving attendance and retention, and simultaneously improving nutritional status. This paper attempts to investigate some of these aspects based on primary data collected from Khurda district of Orissa. Data was collected from schools as well as from a sample of households of schoolchildren. The investigation includes a study of the organisational structure of the programme and also examines the cooked meals and dry ration variants. I t is difficult for a malnourished child to concentrate on studies and hence it hampers the process of her/his education. A child with an empty stomach devotes most of his attention to food rather than learning. So a scheme to overcome the classroom hunger is expected not only to enhance the nutritional status of children (which is desirable in itself) but also to improve the learning process.
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Evaluation of a Mid-Day Meal Program for Primary School Children in the State of Chhattisgarh
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An Assessment of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in India—A Study
Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2010
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