The Mid-Day Meal Scheme was launched in which year?

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Correct — C, 1995. The scheme was launched on 15 August 1995 as the 'National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education' (NP-NSPE), providing free cooked mid-day meals to children in government and government-aided primary schools; it was renamed the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in 2004 and later subsumed under PM POSHAN (2021).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) 1991 is instead associated with India's economic liberalisation reforms (New Economic Policy), not the launch of the school meal scheme.  (b) No major national school-feeding/nutrition scheme was launched in this year — a close-but-wrong distractor year.  (d) Too late — by 2000 the scheme (launched in 1995) was already five years old and being scaled up, not newly launched.

Concept: The Mid-Day Meal Scheme is India's flagship school nutrition programme, designed to simultaneously boost school enrolment/attendance and child nutrition — a 'welfare + education' scheme design that MPPSC and UPSC test repeatedly.

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