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• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of ‘National Scheme for PM POSHAN in Schools’ for the five year period 2021-22 to 2025-26.

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• Newly launched Prime Minister POSHAN scheme or PM-POSHAN scheme will provide one cooked hot meal in government and government-aided schools.
• The centrally sponsored scheme will replace the existing national programme for mid-day meal in schools or Mid-day Meal Scheme.
• Thus, the existing Mid-Day Meal scheme, which provides hot meals to students, will be renamed as the National Scheme for PM Poshan Shakti Nirman.
• The scheme will cover 11.8 crore students enrolled in classes 1 to 8 in over 11.2 lakh schools across the country.
• The scheme will be extended to students studying in pre-primary or Balvatikas running in government and government aided primary schools.
• Currently, these students were not included in the scheme. The government will also promote nutritional gardens in schools.
• Central Government will not decide items which will be served under the scheme and states can decide on their own.
• States will be allowed to include their local nutritional items as well. Earlier the provision was not there.
• The scheme will provide supplementary nutrition in aspirational and tribal districts and districts with high prevalence of anemia.
• The scheme will encourage the participation of Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs) and Women Self-Help Groups in the implementation of the scheme.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/centre-renames-mid-day-meal-scheme-calls-it-pm-poshan-101632917001618.html

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