Mid Day Meal Programme for Rural Children: A Step towards Better India

The mid day meal programme helps to make school more attractive for children and thus improves the enrolment and attendance. As the hunger of the child gets satisfied, it helps to improve attentiveness, memory and learning, particularly in the context in which many children came to school on an empty stomach in the morning.10. Mid day meal programme helps in improving the nutritional status of school children with its proper implementation and functioning such as updating the menu, good infrastructure facilities, maintenance of mid day meal attendance and other records, keeping good quantity and quality of the meal, drinking water and separate toilet facility etc. Mid day meal programme helps in improving the nutritional status of school children with its proper implementation and functioning such as updating the menu, good infrastructure facilities, maintenance of mid day meal attendance and other records, keeping good quantity and quality of the meal, drinking water and separate toilet facility etc.