International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT TO PRIMARY EDUCATION: A STUDY OF MID DAY MEAL SCHEME IN DIBRUGARH DISTRICT OF ASSAM.
2 Author(s): DR.(MRS) BITOPI NATH, DIBRUGARH
Vol - 4, Issue- 3 , Page(s) : 253 - 268 (2013 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
India is emerging as one of the world’s budding super-economies and at the same time its development is pulled back by poverty and illiteracy, the vicious cycle of which is very hard to break. Education can help to break this vicious cycle to a greater extent. But in India about 8.1 million children are out of formal education and they receive a single meal in a day. About 42 percent of the world's underweight children under age 5 are in India . According to Jawaharlal Nehru “Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizen”. A country’s development depends upon the sound physical and mental growth of children. Without nutrition it is impossible to maintain a good health. Nutrition and physical absorption of food have several dimensions and depend upon a host of factors such as quality water, sanitation, health and quality of food itself.