Mid-day Meals: Articles

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Latest additions:

• 2010
  • Yes, free lunches (Anika Gupta, Hindustan Times, 1 November 2010)
• 2009
  • Mid Day Meals (Himanshu Upadhyaya)
• 2008
  • Renuka pushes for pre-cooked meal, Plan panel says no, open to misuse (Ritu Sarin, Indian Express, 16 March 2008 ) [4 June]
  • Renuka faces House steam over pre-cooked meal scheme (Express News Service, 18 March 2008) [4 June]
  • PM Opposes Packaged Food for School kids (Nitin Sethi, TNN, 15 March 2008) [4 June]
  • Biscuit Firms Tweak Plan to sell wares (Nitin Sethi, TNN, 24 March 2008) [4 June]
  • Midday Meals: Welfare by Rote, not reason (Mrinal Pande, Hindustan Times) [4 June]
  • More than a Meal (Shree Venkatram, The Times of India, 3 March 2008) [2 June]
  • Brief report of the National Seminar on "feeding the child" (Organised by Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute, 26 February 2008) [26 August]
  • Rama Baru, Rajib Dasgupta, Mita Deshpande, Aparna Mohanty Full Meal or Package Deal? (Economic and Political Weekly, 14 June 2008)
• 2006
  • Ravi, Padmalatha School meals make slow progress (India Together, 5 December 2006)
  • Khera, Reetika (2006) Mid-Day Meals in Primary Schools: Achievements and Challenges (Economic and Political Weekly, 18 November 2006)
• 2005
  • Zaidie, Annie (2005) Food, for education (Frontline, March 2005)
• 2004
  • Parikh, Kalpana and Summiya Yasmeen (2004) Groundswell for mid-day meal scheme (India Together, January 2004)
  • Dogra, Madhu and Bharat Dogra (2004) Reforming the Mid-day Meal Programme
  • Gopaldas, Tara (2004) Towards effective school health
  • Joel, Lee and Thorat, Sukhadeo (2004) Dalits and the right to food: discrimination and exclusion in food related government programs
  • Rana, Kumar (2004) The Possibilities of Mid-day Meal Programme in West Bengal
  • Sinha, Shanta (2004) Mid-day meal scheme and schools - A need for universal coverage
• 2003
  • Drèze, Jean and Aparajita Goyal (2003) The Future of Mid-day Meals (EPW, July 2003)
  • Drèze, Jean and Vivek S. (2003) Hunger in the Classroom
  • Menon, Parvathi (2003) Untouchable Lunch (Frontline, August 2003)
  • Pratap, Anita (2003) Strike Against Hunger (Outlook, August 2003)
  • Rajivan, Anuradha (2003) Nutrition Schemes in Tamil Nadu
• 2002
  • Khera, Reetika (2002) Mid-day Meals in Rajasthan
• 1994
  • Parmeswaran, M. P.(1994) Sampoorna Bal Vikas

Last updated: 25 December 2010