Published: 10th Jan, 2022
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The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in India have entered into a partnership to enhance the effectiveness of the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (formerly mid-day meal scheme).
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- India was strategically important for the School Meals Coalition that was launched in 2020 with WFP as a coordinating body, as it implemented the largest school feeding programme in the world.
- The partnership is a strategic force multiplier bringing deep work and experience together.
- Since its inception in 1961, school meals have been part of WFP’s mission.
- WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding, and working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes.
Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF)
- The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) is an NGO for children in India which implements the Mid-day meal scheme in a number of states in India.
- Mid-Day Meal Scheme is a centrally-sponsored Scheme that provides children studying in Classes I-VIII of government and government aided schools with cooked mid-day meals.
- The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been awarded the BBC World Service’s Global Food Champion 2019.
- Global Food Champion is an annual award that honours people or projects that are changing the way the world produces, processes, consumes or thinks about food for the better.
Mid-day Meal Scheme
- The Mid-day Meal scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Human resources and Development.
- The key objectives of the MDMS is to-
- improve the nutritional status of children
- improve enrollment, attendance and retention rates in schools and EGS/AIE centres (Alternative and Innovative Education Centres)
- Both the Centre and the state governments contribute funds for the scheme, with the menu differing in each state according to local factors.
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