The programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education popularly known as the Midday Meal Scheme was launched in 1995 as a partly funded Centrally Sponsored Scheme. Under this scheme, all school children in government and governmentaided primary schools are to be provided nutritional support that should also contribute towards universalisation of primary education. While a warm meal should ideally be provided to children at school, often only food grains were distributed at the rate of 3kg per child per month for 10 months in a year. The Supreme Court has now made it mandatory to serve warm cooked meals.

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ISKCON in 1966 in New York . The members of ISKCON endeavour to practice and share with the society at large a healthy and happy life keeping Lord Krishna in the centre. Experiencing inner peace and satisfaction, they are inspired to pursue their respective occupations, albeit with a spiritual vision and out of compassion render service to the society for the upliftment of body, mind and soul.

The underprivileged students in these Govt. aided and Municipal Schools come from the economically backward strata of society many live in slums