mid-day meal programme

The proposed mid-day meal programme for children of classes VI to VIII is set to take off with HRD ministry working to ensure that the promise made in the 2007-08 Union Budget is fulfilled.A sum of Rs 7,324 crore had also been allocated in the budget in order to strengthen and expand the scheme to upper primary level children.some of the Southern states have already expanded the programme upto upper primary levels. out of 3,427 educationally backward blocks, as many as 690 have been identified in Uttar Pradesh followed by 661 in Andhra Pradesh, 495 in Bihar, 189 in Jharkhand, 186 in Rajasthan, 184 in Madhya Pradesh, 154 in Orissa, 84 in Jammu and Kashmir and 80 blocks in Gujarat.