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School Children

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The recommended time to provide meals and milk is, the first hour after commencing the school that is from 7.30 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. If it’s difficult to provide the meals at given time, under special circumstances, the principal has the authority to change the time. However the meals should be given before 9.30 a.m. And 15 minutes should be allocated to consume meals. As milk is not a main meal, it could be given from 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. The meals should be provided according to the menus approved by the Ministry of Education. However, the menus can be changed based on the recommendations of School Health Promotion Committee considering the regional requirements. Under such situations, the principal should keep a note in the log book. According to the statistics of the year 2017, 1,105,605 students of 7871 schools are benefited from the school meal programme while 112,088 students of 414 schools are benefited from the programme of providing fresh milk.