'Lack of monitoring, corruption plague mid-day meal scheme' | ummid.com

'Lack of monitoring, corruption plague mid-day meal scheme' | ummid.com
While reports of insects or lizards being found in the meal keep cropping up, unhygienically cooked and under-nutritious food are the other issues dogging the scheme. The mid-day meal scheme provides children in over 1.2 million government-run schools a hot and nutritious meal every day, which besides encouraging attendance and improving nutritional levels, also helps to arrest dropout rates.