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

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