Munda lays foundation stone for mid-day meal
PTI | 07:07 PM,Jul 10,2011Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), July 10 (PTI) Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda today laid the foundation stone of the ambitious "mid-day meal initiative" project targeting one lakh school children in and around Jamshedpur town.The project, which was being developed on private-public-partnership model among Tata Steel, government of Jharkhand and Food Relief Foundation of ISKCON, will start functioning in next four to five months time.The mid-day meal initiative on PPP model was to provide about one lakh children of primary schools (Government and aided schools) quality food. This will not only attract children to continue their studies but also keep them healthy, he said.The chief minister urged Tata Steel Managing Director HM Nerurkar, who shared the dias with him in the function, to take care of the project under its command areas including Noamundi in West Singhbhum district and Dhanbad while he would take up the issue with others in rest of the state to introduce the project for school children.
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