who started first mid day meal in india
Midday Meal Scheme Initiatives by state governments to children began with their launch of a mid day meal programme in primary schools in the 1962â€“63 school year. Tamil Nadu is a pioneer in introducing mid day meal programmes in India to increase the number of kids coming to school; Thiru K. Kamaraj, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, introduced it first in Chennai and later extended it to all districts of Tamil Nadu.[7]