Bhagwant Mann assures Stalin to consider implementing T.N. Chief Minister’s breakfast scheme in Punjab by August 27
Punjab Prime Minister Bhagwant Mann said that on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, Tamil Nadu Equivalent MK Stalin would think of being implemented after meeting with the cabinet of the Prime Minister’s breakfast program on Wednesday (August 27th).
Mr. Mann was the president of the Prime Minister’s breakfast plan for students in government -backed primary schools in urban areas in Tamil Nadu. Mr. Mann, Chennai’deki Mylapur St. He worked at Joseph’s Primary School.
Mr. Mann congratulated Mr. Stalin for the expansion of the program. Although the lunch program was a good idea, women working at least two hours ago to prepare breakfast for children going to school. He appreciated the breakfast program to ensure education and nutrition for students.
Mr. Mann, who greeting Mr. Stalin’s leadership, called Mr. Stalin called the “People’s Leader”, where people are willing to shake hands.
Mr. Stalin, called his friend Mr. Mann, remembered that Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the guest of the launch. Pudhumai penn Program.
Recalling his visit to a school in Ashok Nagar in Chennai, he found that many students did not have breakfast, Mr. Stalin said he decided to start the program to provide breakfast for students. On September 15, former Prime Minister CN Annadurai launched the program in the Madurai Region in 2022.
“This is not a expense, but a social investment, Stal Stalin said, and urged students to be perfect in their work. He said he was closely watching the implementation of the program. The result of the program was positive in students and classes. Mr. Stalin thanked the cooking for the students within the scope of the Prime Minister breakfast program.
Students who had breakfast during the expansion of the prime minister’s breakfast plan in the urban areas of Urban areas in St. Marys Primary School in Vellore on August 26, 2025. Photo Loan: C. Venkatachapathy
Deputy Prime Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu and Punjab, the bond between Punjab continues for a long time, he said. The Prime Minister said that the breakfast program helped fill the gap between disadvantaged and privileged students.
Sou Sumya Swaminathan, Director of Swaminathan Research Foundation, greeted the policies of the Tamil Nadu government by saying that they are science -based and evidence -based policies. The breakfast plan had many advantages for the nutrition of the society and the health of the students. The program said that many studies lead to cognitive and learning developments. The introduction of millets and vegetables twice a week enriched nutrition to students under the program. Ms. Swaminathan also suggested to include Moringa leaf powder in the program.
Reminding the launch of the HPV vaccine driver in Bathinda and Mansa regions in Punjap in 2016, Ms. Swaminathan pointed out that the Tamil Nadu government was the first major state that explains that the country provides HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer to all girls in the country.
On August 26, 2025, school children taste breakfast during the expansion of the breakfast plan of the prime minister in the urban fields of urban areas in Tirunelveli. Photo Loan: A. Shaikmohideen
Minister of Social Welfare and Women’s Strengthening P. Geetha Jeevan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian, Hindu Religious and Religious Foundation Minister PK Sekarbabu, Secretary N. Muruganandam attended.
The program is expected to expand to state -backed schools in urban schools and benefit from approximately 3.05 lakh more students. So far, the program has been implemented only in primary schools operated by the state in rural areas and state -backed primary schools.
In 2022, Mr. Stalin announced the Prime Minister breakfast program in the Assembly. In September that year, he launched the program on a pilot basis in Madurai. In March 2023, the program was expanded to state primary schools in the company and municipal areas. In August that year, it was expanded to all state primary schools in the state.
In July 2024, the program was expanded to all government -backed primary schools in rural areas. As of February this year, approximately 17.53 Lakh students at 34,987 schools took advantage of the program.
Tamil Nadu government received a total of 600.25 Crore for the program for 2025-26. Positive results: the increase in participation in children going to primary school, decrease in attention time and morbidity rates.
In addition, it led to a decrease of 63.2% in the adoption of hospitals among the children in the first classes in public schools and a decrease of 70.6% in serious diseases between December 2023 and December 2024.
During an assessment of the program, the State Planning Commission found that he developed food behavior in children, encouraged positive habits, increased socialization with other children, increasing the desire to go to school in the health of the child, and healing in the classroom studies and participation.
Published – 26 August 2025 10:43
