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PM POSHAN: School Meals in India
PM POSHAN is the school-meal scheme for children from Bal Vatika to Class VIII in government and government-aided schools, run by the Education Ministry's school department with the states and union territories. It is in the news because a Lok Sabha reply of August 2026 showed foodgrain allocations down to 24,15,007.25 MT in 2025-26, from 26,81,575.28 MT two years earlier.
Last updated 2 November 20263 min read
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Gives PM POSHAN its own card: who is covered, what the Centre pays, how grain moves and who monitors it, which earlier sat on the RTE card.
- PM POSHAN
- school meals
- Bal Vatika
- Food Corporation of India
- Fair Average Quality
- foodgrain allocation
- DoSE&L
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