Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme on September 15, which is also the birth anniversary of C N Annadurai, founder of the DMK and the party’s first chief minister.
- The scheme has been launched for students of Classes I to V.
- Chief minister MK Stalin said they decided to introduce this scheme when they came to know that several children were coming to school without having breakfast.
- The breakfast scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs. 33.56crore in more than 1,500 government-run schools across the state from Monday to Friday.
- As per the state government, around 1.14lakh primary government school children will benefit from this scheme.
- Children will be served different varieties of upma, kichadi, pongal, and on Fridays, rava kesari or semiya kesari will be provided.
