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Impact of Free Mid-day Meal and Breakfast Schemes on Education with Special Reference to Tamil Nadu
J. Cyril Kanmony
Article Number - 660EBDA135F4F | Vol. 5(1), pp. 1-6, April 2024 |
Received: 6 February 2024 | Accepted: 28 March 2024 | Published: 4 April 2024
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Abstract
As education is a powerful
tool for breaking the poverty cycle, enhancing child survival, favouring growth
and development and closing social inequality and even reducing human right
violations national and international conventions and summits emphasized on the
universalization of primary education. However, globally there are nearly 69
million children who have not been enrolled in schools. Of these children
nearly half of them are from Sub-Saharan Africa and almost a quarter from South
Asia including India. The main reason for this state of affair is poor economic
status of their parents, who are compelled to go for some manual works early in
the morning without giving proper care to their children. Hence a scheme that
provides some relief in the form of food is the most necessity to enhance
enrolment and to reduce dropout rates and to help governments achieve the
universalization of primary education. To attain these goals the mid-day meal
scheme was introduced in many countries including India. The government of
India has introduced the mid-day meal scheme in the name of National Programme
of Nutritional Support to Primary Education on the 15th of August
1995. In Tamil Nadu, it stands the highest in enrolment of students in higher
education; the scheme was introduced in 1956, the oldest in the country. The
latest on this line is the ‘free breakfast scheme’ introduced in Tamil Nadu in
two phases, the first phase in 2022 and the second in 2023. It was proved
beyond doubt by many studies that both the schemes have much positive impact on
education, particularly enrolment. Keywords: Universalization
of primary education, Enrolment, Attendance, Social security, Economic security,
Food security, Freebies.
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Authors
J. Cyril Kanmony
Professor
Emeritus, PG & Research Centre, Department of Economics, Scott Christian
College (Autonomous), Nagercoil – 629003, Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu,
India. Email: [email protected]
How to Cite this Article
Kanmony, J. C.
(2024). Impact of Free Mid-day Meal and Breakfast Schemes on Education with
Special Reference to Tamil Nadu. Journal
of Economics, Business Management and Administration, 5(1), 1-6.
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