The midday meal scheme – which costs India’s government about $2 billion a year, with additional funding coming from state governments – feeds 120 million schoolchildren in more than a million primary schools across the country. By providing free and balanced nutrition to schoolchildren, it has provided a powerful incentive to poor families to send their kids to school and, equally important, to keep them there throughout the day.
午餐制度每年花费印度政府不过20亿美元，其他资金来自邦政府 。该制度为全国100多万所小学的1.2亿学生提供免费的营养均衡的膳食，对贫穷家庭来说，这是让他们把孩子送到学校并（这一点同样重要）让他们在学校里呆一整天的强大激励。