Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday, May 7 announced a breakfast scheme for students of government schools in the state to mark the completion of his government’s first anniversary. To commemorate the first year anniversary, the chief minister has also introduced a special nutritional scheme for children. Tamil Nadu is set to become the first state to offer breakfast along with midday meals. This includes the launch of integrated urban health centres within the Corporation and Municipal limits.
The schemes are a free morning breakfast scheme for government school students, a scheme to eradicate nutrition deficiency, the establishment of schools of excellence and primary health centres in urban areas and the expansion of ‘CM in Your Constituency’, a public grievances redress system, to all 234 constituencies.
The free breakfast scheme was launched based on the available information that the government school children skip breakfast while going to school because of the distance and family situations.
