circular on Government Nutrition Programme to Provide Meals for School Children

Education Ministry has released a circular on Government Nutrition Programme to Provide Meals for School Children.

Circular No - 14/2025

Circular Date - 01.04.2025

Contents of the Circular

• Responsibility for implementing the government's nutrition programme to provide food to school children at the national, provincial and zonal levels is assigned to the Health Promotion Committees, and these committees are involved in the implementation of the programme. Maintaining those committees actively and evaluating and regulating via them.

• Selection of schools for the government nutrition programme is done as follows to provide meals to school children

• Providing meals at school level

• The Food Committee should be actively functioning in every school and the Food Committee should ensure the safety of food. In terms of the Ministry of Education's Circular No.35/2015 in relation to the operation of school canteens, the School Food Committee, as a sub-committee of the School Development Society, should be chaired by the Principal or a Deputy Principal nominated by the Principal and its composition  

• Ensuring the appropriateness of the food preparation location, preparation process and distribution process.

• Properly maintaining information relevant to the government's nutrition programme for providing meals to school children

• Proper delegation of responsibilities and accountability

• Providing quality and quantity of meals to meet the daily energy (Calorie and nutritional needs of school - age children

• Expenditure of Credit

• Maintaining the information system up to date

• The school must properly maintain the documents in relation to the government nutrition program for providing meals to school children

• Programmes to uplift nutritional states of schools children and school community

• Conducting Progress Reviews Meetings

• Research and Conducting Studies

• Implementation of the "Home Grown School Feeding Programme" for the Sustainable Existence of the food programme.

• Obtaining support from external parties

• Acting in cases food materials are receieved as donations

• Implementation of Support Programms

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