WB govt wants to extend mid-day meal scheme in schools

Updated on: Monday, August 22, 2011

The West Bengal government said it would like to extend the mid-day meal programme in the state and raise the per head allocation to encourage more students to continue with their studies.

State's school and higher education minister Bratya Basu told the state Assembly that chief minister Mamata Banerjee had already urged the Centre to extend the midday meal programme to students up to tenth standard.

Currently, food is provided to students up till eighth standard under the scheme.

Basu said that the government was working out how to increase the per head allocation under the programme.

The state government was interested in abolishing the unit test system in schools to remove the trauma of examinations among students, he said, adding, a committee had been formed to rationalise the syllabus in the school curricula.

The present government has started giving scholarships to 16,000 students which the previous Left Front government failed to disburse, he added.

WB govt wants to extend mid-day meal scheme in schools

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