mid day meals: In another intervention in LS, Sonia demands restart of midday meals

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi demanded within the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that the federal government resume noon meals as faculties have re-opened after a two-year break on account of Covid-induced shutdown.

Intervening throughout Zero Hour, Gandhi stated: “Youngsters have been the worst-affected as a result of pandemic. Faculties have been the primary to be closed and the final to be opened. When faculties have been closed, noon meals stopped too. Folks got ration beneath Nationwide Meals Safety Act and as per a Supreme Court docket order. However there was no various for dry ration and cooked meals for youngsters. As kids are returning to colleges, they want even higher vitamin. I request the federal government to…re-start the noon meal scheme.”