How Bihar's mid-day meal programme works

Thu, 18 July 2013

18:09

India's program to provide free lunches for poor schoolchildren to supplement their diet and keep them in school has good intentions. A report by the Planning Commission published in 2010 found that it had been successful in reducing classroom hunger. Read

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