Mid-day meal for school children from today
School children will be provided with mid-day meal from today with the aim of creating a healthy and active future generation.
The mid-day meal programme will be provided according to the Mahinda Chinthana vision of providing nutritious and balanced diet for the children. 1,052,316 students in 7000 schools will benefit by this programme. The Government will spend 2800 million rupees to provide free mid-day meal to school children.