CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme 2022 under Rule110 that Breakfast will be provided to primary school children from 1st to 5th standard studying in Government schools on all school working days and the scheme has been launched on 15.09. 2022 at Madurai by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Tamil Nadu. The ‘Mid-day meal Scheme’ was first introduced in 1956 by Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister K. Kamaraj. The aim was to reduce the school dropout rate as well as increase school enrollment by providing free meals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tamilnadu is the Pioneer State for implementing the massive programme of providing nutritious Midday Meal to lakhs and lakhs of school children. The Former Hon’ble Chief Minister Puratchi Thalaivar MGR has launched this scheme in Trichy District Pappakurichi Village on 01.07. 1982.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kamaraj brought in a free meal scheme to all panchayat and government-run primary schools in Tamil Nadu in 1956-57, he was reforging an earlier idea. On November 17, 1920, The Hindu reported that the Chennai Corporation council had unanimously decided to provide ‘tiffin’ to a local school in Chennai.