Delhi Govt will provide dry ration to students: Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal distributing a mid-day meal dry kit to a mother of a student as Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia looks on, at a Government school, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal distributing a mid-day meal dry kit to a mother of a student as Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia looks on, at a Government school, in New Delhi on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, Dec 29:
The Delhi Government will provide students of its schools dry rations under the mid-day meal scheme for six months, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday. The move comes in view of continued closure of schools since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When schools were closed, we decided to send the money for mid-day meals to parents’ account, but now, it has been decided that we will give dry rations for six months,” Kejriwal said at a dry ration distribution event at a government school in Mandawali area. Schools across the country were closed in March to contain the spread of COVID-19. They were partially reopened in some states from October 15. However, the Delhi government has announced that schools will not reopen in the national capital till a vaccine for the coronavirus is available. (PTI)