question: A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimulus package In this paper, we discuss the implications of lockdown-induced school and rural child-care center closures on education and health outcomes for the urban and rural poor We especially focus on food and nutritional security of children who depend on school feeding and supplementary nutrition programs We argue that the impacts are likely to be much more severe for girls as well as for children from already disadvantaged ethnic and caste groups We also discuss ways in which existing social security programs can be leveraged and strengthened to ameliorate these impacts