District Collector Anand Mohan inspected the trial run in the Government Girls’ High School and the Government Boys’ Higher Secondary School in Manur.
During the trial run, breakfast was served to 32,734 students of 352 schools including 50 schools in Tirunelveli corporation area, 25 schools under the jurisdiction of Kalakkad, Ambasamudram and Vickramasingapuram municipalities, 58 schools in town panchayat areas and 219 schools in villages. Of this, 136 are government schools and remaining 216 are government-aided schools.
In Tirunelveli Corporation, 6,140 students of 118 primary schools including 40 municipal corporation schools and 78 government-aided schools have already been covered under the free breakfast scheme.
Now, it is being expanded to 50 more middle schools including 12 Corporation schools, 36 government-aided schools and 2 government schools with 5,143 students.
Hence, the trial run was conducted at Child Jesus Girls’ Higher Secondary School in Palayamkottai on Friday.
The food to be served to the beneficiary children within the Tirunelveli Corporation will be prepared in the kitchen near Melapalayam Zone office.
