Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has called a special session of the School Meal Programme Committee to finalize the selection of the company that will supply milk and biscuits for students in government schools.
The initiative is set to roll out in eight districts of the province, including Bhakkar, Bahawalnagar, Dera Ghazi Khan, Layyah, Rajanpur, Mianwali, Muzaffargarh, and Rahim Yar Khan.
Launched as a pilot project under the Chief Minister’s School Nutrition Programme, the scheme aims to tackle malnutrition among schoolchildren. According to officials, more than 400,000 undernourished students enrolled in 3,527 schools will receive milk on a daily basis.
In addition, the used milk packs will be collected for recycling, with the proceeds directed towards the welfare and development of the respective schools.
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How the contract for provision of milk & biscuits is given and to whom? It will show how much corruption is involved.
Better to upgrade standard and public living. Children don’t have food at home.
Every one knows the milk in the markets is not natural milk, that is chemically manufactured milk. Can machine generated milk boost human health is a vital aspect needs to be medically researched and studied. Children’s health needs is pure natural milk drawn from halal milking animals.
The whole world uses packaged milk, only in Pakistan we have set our own standards of decleraing any thing not safe due to lack of knowledge or wider prespective.