CM Stalin launched expansion of breakfast scheme for Tamil Nadu govt school
CM Stalin launched expansion of breakfast scheme for Tamil Nadu govt school: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Friday launched the expansion of the state government’s breakfast scheme at Thirukkuvalai in Nagapattinam district. Stalin, who served the breakfast for the children, also joined them for breakfast and interacted with them.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz: August 2023
Importance of the breakfast scheme
- Reduce child hunger
- Reduce malnutrition
- Boost enrolment numbers
- Boost educational results
- Overcome the effects of Covid
- State responsibility
- Combating child labour
- Socialization
The scheme has been extended to 31,000 government schools across the state benefitting 17 lakh students.
Initially, the scheme was devised to provide nutritious breakfast to 1,14,095 students of classes 1 to 5 studying in 1,545 government schools and an amount of Rs 33.56 crore was allocated for this scheme.