Q. Which of the following schemes was launched to promote basic education in India and attract children in school going age to attend the classes

A
Pulse Polio Abhiyan
B
Operation Flood
C
Mid Day Meal scheme
D
None of these
Solution:

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madrasa and Maktab supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour. Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world.

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