POSHAN SCHEME

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• Recently a guideline released by the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry has clarified that the Aadhaar Card details of children are not mandatory under the PM-Poshan scheme.
• The Ministry highlighted that it will ensure that the benefits under the Poshan scheme are delivered using the mother’s Aadhaar ID.

Poshan Schemes

• The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme in India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide, under the Ministry of Education.
• 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 million children in over 1.27 million schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, the Midday Meal Scheme is the largest of its kind in the world.
• The Midday Meal Scheme has been implemented in the Union Territory of Puducherry under the French Administration since 1930.
• In post-independent India, the Midday meal Scheme was first launched in Tamil Nadu, during the early 60s.
  • The government of India initiated the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) on 15 August 1995.
  • By 2002, the scheme was implemented in all of the states under the orders of the Supreme Court of India.
• The name of the scheme was changed to PM-POSHAN (Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman) Scheme, in September 2021, by the Ministry of Education, which is the nodal ministry for the scheme.
  • The Central Government also announced that an additional 24 lakh students receiving pre-primary education at government & government-aided schools would also be included under the scheme by 2022.
• The Midday Meal Scheme is covered by the National Food Security Act, 2013.

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