Mid-day meal scheme amazes Bill Clinton


Bill Clinton became a part the vast mid-day meal programme in Rajasthan on Wednesday by serving hot food to children in a government school — an experience that left a deep impression on the former President of the United States.

“Such a huge quantity of food prepared and served in efficient, healthy and sanitary manner is unbelievable,” Mr. Clinton said during his address to the students of a government Sanskrit school in Sanganer near Jaipur on Wednesday.

The Mid Day Meal Scheme is jointly run by Akshaya Patra, Deshpande Foundation and the Rajasthan government and feeds over a lakh children in about 1,500 schools, 15,000 infants in 298 anganwadi centres, and runs subsidised canteens for socially and economically backward sections of the society in Jaipur alone. The Clinton Foundation under the Clinton Global Initiative raises awareness and motivates business houses, corporates and other agencies to fund Akshaya Patra for running the Mid Day Meal Programme...............Read More

 

Source: The Hindu


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