ABSTRACT

The present was on the Mid Day Meal programme in developing health
index and social values. For this purpose, data of 75 adolescents from the high
school was collected. The obtained results showed that they are gettingadequate
amount of calories every day. Also mid day meal programme had contributed to
increasing the health index of the students and also social values were developed in
the students.

INTRODUCTION
The Mid Day Meal programmeof the government of India is designed to
improve the nutritional status of school age children national wide.
Theyprogramme supplies free lunches on working day for children in primary and
upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, education
guarantee scheme, and alternate innovative Abhiyan, and national child labor
project school run by the Ministry of labor serving. 120,000,000 children in over
1,265,000 schools and education Guarantee scheme centers. It is the largest such
programme in the world.

Under Article 24, paragraph 2C of conventions of rights of the child, to

which India is a party, India has committed to providing adequate nutritious
feeds for children. The programme entered the planning stage in 2001 and was
implemented in 2004. The programme has undergone many changes and
amendments since its launch. The government of India initiated the
NtionalProgramme of nutritional support to primary Education (NP-NSPE) on 15
August 1995. The objective of the scheme is to help improve the effectiveness of
primary education by improving the nutritional status of primary children. Initially,
the scheme was implemented in 2.408 blocks of the country to provide food to
students in classes one through five of government , government aided, and local
body run by schools. By 1997-1998 the scheme has be implemented across the
country. Under this programme, a cooked Mid Day meal with 300 calories and
12grams of protein is provided to children enrolled in classes 1 to 5. In October
2007, the scheme included students in upper primary classes of 6 to 8 in 3,479
educationally backward blocks, and the name was changed from National