Impact of mid day meal on nutritional status of 7-9 year old children in hyderabad
International Journal of Development Research
Impact of mid day meal on nutritional status of 7-9 year old children in hyderabad
Received 25th October, 2017; Received in revised form 06th November, 2017; Accepted 10th December, 2017; Published online 31st January, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Shruti Kabra and Zubaida Azeem. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Mid day meal programme provides food free of cost to over 12 crore children of on all working days. It is a fact that mid day meal had a positive influence on the various objectives of the scheme such as enrolment, attendance , social equity but the contribution of mid day meals to the nutritional status is still not clear. This paper attempts to study the nutrients supplied through mid day meal and its impact on nutritional status of primary school children. School children of age 7-9 years were selected randomly from schools of Hyderabad. The results of the anthropometric data revealed that the height and weight of primary school children were lower than the ICMR standards for that age group. The data on dietary intake revealed that the intake of children was lower when compared to the RDA but mid day meal did have a significant contribution to the day’s intake of the children.
