A Comparative Study of the Midday Meals in Government Schools

The midday meals have succeeded in bringing together children from different backgrounds to a great extent. This cultural relevancy is far easier to maintain when meals are cooked locally as compared to what is made by some NGOs. Dipa and Sylvia say that although there were issues like the parents of upper caste children not wanting them to eat food prepared by the luth cooks or children from different castes getting different plates things have since gotten better. But overall there's a kind of a systemic discrimination of children in government schools because more than 97% of these children at least you know in Karnataka they come from Delhi, Adivasi, OVC backgrounds.