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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sonia Gandhi asks government to resume midday meal

Sonia Gandhi asks government to resume midday meal

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published Published on Mar 24, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 24, 2022

-The Telegraph

She demanded that nutritional food be provided to kids below three years who don’t come to school under the Integrated Child Development Scheme

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday requested the Narendra Modi government to immediately resume the midday meal scheme, arguing that children had been the worst affected by the pandemic both in terms of education and food.

Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, Sonia said: “This matter affects the collective future of our country. Our children have suffered the most since the start of the pandemic. Children are our future. Schools were the first to close and the last to open among all the institutions. Closure of schools stopped the midday meal scheme. Though dry ration was provided to the people because of the National Food Security Act and the Supreme Court’s direction, that was not a substitute for children getting cooked nutritional food.”

She added: “It is indisputable that the families of these children had to face extreme difficulties on the livelihood front. Such a crisis had never been witnessed in the recent past. But as children have started attending school, they need nutritional food. Not only that, this scheme will also help bring back to school those children who abandoned education due to Covid-19 disruptions.

“The National Family Health Survey 2019-21 suggests that the number of children below the age of five affected by malnutrition has increased in comparison with the situation in 2015-16. This is worrying and the government must take remedial measures.”

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The Telegraph, 24 March, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/sonia-gandhi-asks-government-to-resume-midday-meal/cid/1857295


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