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PM POSHAN Scheme

Context

The Indian government has announced it will bear an additional cost of Rs 425.62 crore in FY 2024-25 due to inflation in food material costs under the PM POSHAN Scheme, which provides hot cooked meals to school children.

About PM POSHAN Scheme

  • Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN)earlier known as the National Programme of Mid-Day Meal in Schools is one of the foremost rights based Centrally Sponsored Schemes under the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA).
  • The Scheme aims at providing nutritional support and enhancing school participation of students.
  • This scheme serves hot meals to 11.70 crore students in 10.24 lakh government and government-aided schools. The students are from Balvatika (pre-primary) to class VIII.
  • Under the PM POSHAN Scheme, ‘Material Cost’ is provided for procurement of following ingredients required for cooking the meals :

Ingredients

Per student per meal quantity

Bal Vatika & Primary

Upper Primary

Pulses

20 gm

30 gm

Vegetables

50 gm

75 gm

Oil

5 gm

7.5 gm

Spices & Condiments

As per need

As per need

Fuel

As per need

As per need

  • The Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour provides data on inflation for these items under the PM POSHAN basket on the basis of Consumer Price Index – Rural Labourers (CPI-RL) in consonance with CPI index for PM POSHAN and accordingly CPI index for PM POSHAN basket has been worked out.
  • The CPI-RL is constructed by Labour Bureau, Chandigarh on the basis of collecting continuous monthly prices from the sample of 600 villages spread over 20 States of the country.

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