<P> The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school - age children nationwide . The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government , government aided , local body , Education Guarantee Scheme , and alternate innovative education centres , Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan , and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour . Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres , it is the largest such programme in the world . </P>
<P> The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school - age children nationwide . The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government , government aided , local body , Education Guarantee Scheme , and alternate innovative education centres , Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan , and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour . Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres , it is the largest such programme in the world . </P>
mid day meal scheme comes under which ministry
mid day meal scheme comes under which ministry
the ministry of labour
the ministry of labour