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Stalin announces free breakfast for students

-The Hindu

Classes 1-5 to benefit; this is among 5 schemes announced

Chennai: On the occasion of the DMK government of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin stepping into its second year on Saturday, the State was richer by five new development schemes.

Mr. Stalin made the announcements in the Assembly. The schemes are a free morning breakfast scheme for government school students, a scheme to eradicate nutrition deficiency, establishment of schools of excellence and primary health centres in urban areas and the expansion of ‘CM in Your Constituency’, a public grievances redress system, to all 234 constituencies.

Speaking under Rule 110, he said the free breakfast scheme was launched based on the available information that the government school children skip breakfast while going to school because of the distance and family situation. He said free breakfast would be provided to students of Classes 1-5 on all working days. In the first phase, the scheme would be launched in some Corporations, municipalities and villages. The scheme would be implemented through the local bodies and expanded to all parts of the State in phases, he said.

Mr. Stalin said the second scheme was aimed at making Tamil Nadu free of nutrition deficiency. “After coming to power, we got worrying statistics that many children aged below 6 are nutritionally deficient. They are under-weight and height is not appropriate to their age. Based on this, we have planned the scheme under which we will put the children through medical tests,” he said. The Chief Minister said the government decided to provide medical assistance and nutrition to children based on their needs.

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