Mid-day Meals – Paragraph Writing

Mid-day Meals – Paragraph Writing

MID-DAY MEALS

Mid-day meal is one of the newest schemes that Government of India has undertaken to reduce the number of school drop-outs. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched a programme of providing cooked food to the students from class V to VIII. The programme covers around 12 crore primary students. There are families who cannot even provide a square meal to their children once a day. For those parents, sending their children to school is a luxury. In some areas people have to travel long distance to avail food. As a result, the parents do not send their children to school. This scheme is an effort to bring these children back to school and it has proved to be highly successful in doing so. There is noticeable increase in the number of students attending schools. As the children are getting food in the school premises, there is an added interest among them in going to school. It has also helped to remove differences among students. Students of different racial and economic background are brought under one umbrella. But unfortunately, in many areas poor quality of food is reported. In some areas, the quality of the meal is resulting in the sickness and even death of the students. But this endeavour of Government is undoubtedly praiseworthy.