Click to play videoNew Delhi: The debate seems to be settled once and for all, and hot cooked meal is the chosen food for children till 14 years of age in the country to provide supplementary nutrition.
Minutes of a cabinet meeting earlier this month clearly states that government would expedite switch over to hot cooked meals from Ready to eat food.
This is under the rupees 44 thousand crore Integrated Child Development Scheme despite objections by the Women and Child Development Ministry.
The Planning Commission had earlier intervened opposing any such move however, later the PMO had intervened insisting the Supreme Court guidelines on the issue be followed.
But this decision of the union cabinet comes at a time when the Comptroller and Auditor General has raised serious questions over the implementation of a similar program to increase nutritional levels in children.
The Mid Day meal scheme which provides hot cooked meals to children at primary and upper primary level CAG says that no assessment so far has been made on the impact of the program in terms of enrollment, nutritional and retention levels of children.
The two schemes together cover more than 15 crore children in the country. The government has decided what is best to increase nutritional levels in them without assessing how good the present system is.
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