India’s midday meal programme has helped improve learning outcomes, a new study has found.
Academics from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, correlated the number of months children had school meals with their performances in standardised reading and mathematics tests – and noticed significant improvement.
                  source:   https://scroll.in/article/913995/four-years-of-midday-meals-improve-indian-childrens-test-scores-by-18-study-finds