Midday Meal Scheme (English Wikipedia)

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"Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students". The Hindu. 29 September 2021. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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Chettiparambil-Rajan, Angelique (July 2007). "India: A Desk Review of the Mid-Day Meals Programme" (PDF). World Food Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
"Frequently Asked Questions on Mid Day Meal Scheme" (PDF). mdm.nic.in (Mid Day Meal Scheme, Ministry of Education, Government of India). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
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"Annual Work Plan & Budget 2010–11, Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Gujarat State" (PDF). Government of Gujarat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
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"Agenda note of 5th meeting of National Steering and Monitoring Committee meeting" (PDF). Mdm.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
Dr. N.C. Saxena. "Sixth Report Of the Commissioners" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
"Right to Food Campaign: Mid Day Meals". Righttofoodindia.org. 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
"Mid Day Meals: A Primer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
Priya Shankar; Natasha S. K. Aditi Bam (ed.). "Interrogating 'best practices' for the Implementation of School Nutrition Programmes in Urban India" (PDF). Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2013. A report for the Office of the Commissioners to the Supreme Court in CWP 196/2001{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
"87 children die in school fire". The Hindu. 17 July 2004. Archived from the original on 18 July 2004. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
"Towards more advantages from Mid-Day Meals" (PDF). Cordindia.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
"Historical Background". Nutrition Support to Education: Report of the Committee on Mid-Day Meals. Department of School Education and Literacy, Government of India. May 1995. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
"Mid Day Meal Scheme, First Review Mission, Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). mdm.nic.in (Mid Day Meal Scheme, Ministry of Education, Government of India). February 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
Aparajita Goyal; Jean Dreze (1 November 2003). "Future of Mid-Day Meals". Economic and Political Weekly. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

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Chettiparambil-Rajan, Angelique (July 2007). "India: A Desk Review of the Mid-Day Meals Programme" (PDF). World Food Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.

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"Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students". The Hindu. 29 September 2021. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
Swaminathan, Padmini; Jeyaranjan, J.; Sreenivasan, R.; Jayashree, K. (2004). "Tamil Nadu's Midday Meal Scheme: Where Assumed Benefits Score over Hard Data". Economic and Political Weekly. 39 (44): 4811–4821. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 4415741.
Subramanian, K. (22 December 2022). "When MGR proved Manmohan wrong on a visionary scheme". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 December 2022.