school enrolment in India
Social Innovation That Fought Hunger: Mid-Day Meal
Monday, 18 January 2021
by Shruti Suresh
Can free meals provided at schools improve student attendance and reduce the dropout rates? Indians would know. Back in 1920s, the Mayor of Madras in India introduced the scheme of one anna breakfast for students in one school. One anna was a unit of Indian currency – it is now defunct – an anna was INR 0.06. The programme was discontinued by the British government when the enrolment
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