Students, teachers welcome expansion of breakfast scheme

For Roja (name changed on request) from Presidency Girls Model Government Higher Secondary School, Egmore, who had spent her elementary schooling eating breakfast under the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme, the expansion of the scheme to Classes 6-8 has only ensured that she doesn’t have to worry about her first meal.

“In class 3, my mother never had to worry about my breakfast, as food would be available at school. But in middle school, it got a little difficult. Either I would have dosa if there was time or nothing at all,” she said.

As her mother often falls sick, Roja would cook breakfast for her mother and leave for school, but skip her own. “Now that it has been expanded, I’m glad,” she said, now in Class 8.