Devendra Prasad Pandey
Free mid-day meals for school students were first introduced in a Japanese private school in the late 1800s, in Brazil in 1938 and in the United States in 1946. Both Japan and the US boast 100 percent adult literacy. In mid-1995, the government of India launched centrally-sponsored mid-day meal scheme. The Supreme Court gave a wake-up call on November 28, 2001, in the form of an order directing all state governments to introduce cooked mid-day meals in primary ...