Question

Mid-day meal is given in government-aided schools because of
a. Supreme court
b. FIR
c. PIL
d. All of these

Answer 1

Hint:
The Mid-day Meal Scheme is a school meal program of the Government of India intended to better the nutrition of young kids nationwide.The program supplies free snacks on working days for youngsters in essential and upper essential classes in government, government helped, neighborhood body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and substitute creative instruction habitats, Madarsa and Maqtabs upheld under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the service of labour. Serving 120,000,000 kids in more than 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme focuses, it is the biggest of its sort on the planet.

Complete solution:
In April 2001, the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) started the public interest case (Civil) No. 196/2001, People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Association of India and Others – famously known as the "right to food" case. The PUCL contended that Article 21 – "right to life" of the Indian Constitution when pursued along with Articles 39(a) and 47, makes the privilege to feed a determined principal right which is enforceable by goodness of the sacred cure given under Article 32 of the constitution. The PUCL contended that overabundance of food stocks with the Food Corporation of India should be taken care of to hungry residents. This included giving mid-day meals in grade schools. The scheme came into power with the high court request dated 28 November 2001, which required all administration and government-helped grade schools to give prepared midday meals.

Regardless of the accomplishment of the program, kid hunger as an issue perseveres in India. As per current insights, 42.5% of the kids under 5 are underweight. Some basic wellbeing estimates, for example, utilizing iodised salt and getting immunizations are exceptional in India. "India is home to the world's biggest food uncertainty populace, with in excess of 500 million individuals who are eager", India State Hunger Index (ISHI) said. Numerous kids don't get enough to eat, which has expansive ramifications for the presentation of the nation overall. "Its paces of youth unhealthiness is higher than most nations in Sub-Saharan Africa," it noted.


Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
 The 2009 Global Hunger Index positioned India at 65 out of 84 nations. In excess of 200 million went hungry in India that year, more than some other nation on the planet. The report expresses that "improving youngster nourishment is of most extreme direness in most Indian states".