Rajya Sabha

January 3, 2019

Manas Bhunia asks a Question on the number of children in mid-day meal database

Manas Bhunia asks a Question on the number of children in mid-day meal database

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Hon’ble Chairman Sir, the Hon Minister replied that out of 11,74,23551 enrolled students from Classes I to VIII, 9,2,68,822 (77 per cent) have linked their Aadhar to the mid-day meal project in our country, except the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and Meghalaya.

What is the fate of the the rest of the 2,71,53,729 students who are not till date linked with Aadhar. They will be abused. How they will be fed?