{"id":28604,"date":"2024-12-10T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:09:49","slug":"pradhan-mantri-poshan-shakti-nirman-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pradhan-mantri-poshan-shakti-nirman-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was earlier known as the <strong>National Programme of Mid-Day Meal<\/strong> in schools.<\/li>\n<li>In September 2021, Mid-Day Meal Scheme was renamed as Pradhan Mantri POSHAN Scheme.<\/li>\n<li>It is a centrally sponsored scheme under which <strong>one hot cooked meal<\/strong> is served to students studying in <strong>Balvatika <\/strong>and classes I to VIII, in <strong>Government and Government-aided schools<\/strong> on all school-days.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme aims at <strong>providing nutritional support<\/strong> and enhancing school participation of students.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>objectives of the Scheme are<\/strong> to address two of the pressing problems for the majority of children in India, viz. hunger and education by:\n<ul>\n<li>Improving the <strong>nutritional status of eligible children<\/strong> in Government and Government aided schools.<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging poor children, belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities.<\/li>\n<li>Providing nutritional <strong>support to children of the elementary stage<\/strong> in drought-affected and disaster affected areas during summer vacation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Recently, on the basis of the inflation index provided by the Labour Bureau, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, has enhanced the \u2018Material Cost\u2019 by 13.70 %.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Ministry of Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is nutrition?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the assimilation by living organisms of food materials that enable them to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2082529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Enhancement of \u2018Material Cost\u2019under the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN) Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman Scheme  is a centrally sponsored scheme under which one hot cooked meal is served to students studying in Balvatika and classes I to VII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}