{"id":109728,"date":"2021-05-31T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109728"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:14:58","slug":"mid-day-meal-scheme-govt-decides-to-provide-monetary-assistance-through-dbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mid-day-meal-scheme-govt-decides-to-provide-monetary-assistance-through-dbt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mid-Day-Meal Scheme&#8221; &#8211; Govt decides to provide monetary assistance through DBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education has approved the proposal to provide monetary assistance to students enrolled in Mid-Day-Meal Scheme. The cooking cost component amount will be provided through Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) to all eligible children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Mid Day Meal Scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answereddespite-its-potential-the-mid-day-meal-scheme-has-been-unable-to-make-a-transformative-impact-discuss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mid Day Meal Scheme <\/strong><\/a>is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 1995 by the Ministry of Education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, to address the issues of hunger and education in schools by serving hot cooked meals;<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, to improve the nutritional status of children<\/li>\n<li>Thirdly, to improve enrollment, attendance and retention rates in schools and other education centres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin of the Scheme:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The roots of the scheme trace back to the pre-independence era. The erstwhile British administration has introduced the midday meal programme in 1925 in Madras Corporation.<\/li>\n<li>The French administration in 1930 had also introduced a midday meal programme in the Union Territory of Puducherry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of the Scheme:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Under the Scheme, <\/strong>cooked meals are provided to every child within the age group of six to fourteen years and studying in classes I to VIII.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cooked meal having nutritional standards <\/strong>of 450 calories and 12 gm of protein for primary (I-V class) and 700 calories and 20 gm protein for upper primary (VI-VIII class).<\/li>\n<li><strong>If the Mid-Day Meal is not provided in school <\/strong>on any school day due to non-availability of food grains or any other reason. Then the State Government shall pay food security allowance by 15th of the succeeding month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coverage: <\/strong>All children in government and aided schools and madrasas supported under Samagra Shiksha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1722407\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Education has approved the proposal to provide monetary assistance to students enrolled in Mid-Day-Meal Scheme. The cooking cost component amount will be provided through Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) to all eligible children. About Mid Day Meal Scheme: Mid Day Meal Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 1995&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mid-day-meal-scheme-govt-decides-to-provide-monetary-assistance-through-dbt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Mid-Day-Meal Scheme&#8221; &#8211; Govt decides to provide monetary assistance through DBT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,956,9,959],"tags":[1309,1396],"class_list":["post-109728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-education_related","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780310,"cached_date":1704834258},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}