With schools closed yet again due to the second wave of Covid-19, the Uttar Pradesh government has instructed all the basic shiksha adhikaris to provide funds and grains to the beneficiaries.
The midday meal initiative, which aims at increasing the student enrolment and attendance in schools, will be used to help the poor – as it was done in the previous year. The parents of over 1.5 crore students studying in UP government schools will now be given grains and food allowance for the period the schools remain shut.
This comes in the backdrop of the decision taken by the government to provide the families of over 1.5 crore students studying in the schools with the conversion cost and food grains till the schools reopen.