DODA: District Development Commissioner, Doda, Mubarak Singh today convened a meeting of officers of ICDS and education department to ensure quality food as per guidelines of ICDS and mid day meal programme among the poor children.
Additional District Development Commissioner, G.N Balwan, Programme Officer, ICDS, Arvind Sharma, Chief Planning Officer, Dr. Yassir Balwan besides CDPO’s and senior officers of Education Department attended the meeting.
The DDC, while stressing the need for providing good quality meal to children, said that ICDS scheme is the most unique programme in providing pre-school education on one hand and fighting malnutrition, morbidity, reduced learning capacity and mortality on the other hand. While as mid day meal programme is a multi-faceted programme of the GoI that seek to address the issue of food security, lack of nutrition and access to education, it involves provision of free lunch on working days for children in Govt. Schools. |
