Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said on Sunday that Chennai expanded CM’s breakfast scheme on August 26, more than 20 lakh school students will benefit from the initiative that is aimed at ensuring development.
The scheme is now being expanded to government and aided primary schools in urban areas in Tamil Nadu.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will appear during the expansion of the scheme on Wednesday.
In social media posts, Stalin said that this scheme will now benefit 20.59 lakh school children.
He said, “From the days of the Justice Party to the Dravidian model government, we provide food to children to address and teach them. It is not just food, but the foundation of development,” he said.
The CM said that the “leading task” of the government will continue to set an example for the country and Tamil Nadu will grow forever.
Stalin recalled, in a separate letter, Partimen, how Tamil Nadu pioneered such an initiative when CM’s Kamaraj launched a lunch scheme late.
Later, CM MG Ramachandran upgraded it to the nutritious food scheme.
Years later, late M. Under Karunanidhi, the DMK government added eggs to students’ food, Stalin said.
The Tamil Nadu government had earlier said that more than 3.5 lakh students studying in government and aided primary schools in urban areas across the state would benefit in detail of breakfast scheme.
The flagship program was inaugurated on September 15, 2022, for government school students, for the first time in India, when Stalin had breakfast to students at the Adhimulam Corporation Primary School in Madurai.
After a huge response about the plan of parents and students, the scheme expands on August 25, 2023 at Thirukulai in Nagapattinam district, late Chief Minister M.K. The birthplace of Karunanidhi was done, which benefits 18.5 lakh students from 30,992 schools.
This was further expanded on July 15, 2024, which was for the benefit of 2.23 lakh students studying in primary schools aided by 3,995 government.
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