Welcome introduction of milk in mid-day meal in schools
It refers to welcome advisory by central government to states on 02.01.2018 to include milk in mid-day meal-scheme and other nutritional programmes to tackle high levels of malnourishment in the country at a time when country has now enough of milk.
But to prevent adulteration and water-mixing, milk should be provided in poly-packs rather than pouring it from containers. Poor quality of food provided under mid-day meal-schemes rather calls for packaged bakery-items rather than cooked food. Milk-giants in co-operative sector like Ámul’, ‘Mother-Dairy’, ‘Vita’, ‘Saras’’, ‘Sudha’ etc and Indian Railways Catering and tourism Corporation (IRCTC) can be assigned to set up bakeries in large numbers throughout the country not only to cater to demand under mid-day meal-scheme, but also to p...









