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CM Adityanath calls for external audit of mid-day meals in Uttar Pradesh

Move expected to help in improving attendance levels in schools

Yogi Adityanath, Yogi, Yogi govt, Uttar Pradesh, UP govt
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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and State BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey being garlanded during a party rally in Aligarh on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
In a bid to make qualitative improvements in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to conduct an external audit to evaluate how effective the central scheme at the ground-level.  

Following the audit, the state government plans to take steps to improve the attendance of students in schools that are entitled to serve meals under the central government welfare scheme. 

At present, there are around 168,000 primary and upper primary schools are covered under the scheme in UP. This means that almost 17.8 million students are eligible beneficiaries of the