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Village dairy farms provide free milk to students

The government's campaign to distribute milk free among school children countrywide to raise their nutrition levels began in the Nuwara Eliya District on Monday.

Accordingly, 159,403 children in 523 schools in the district will be given liquid milk under the auspices of the Economic Development Ministry.

In keeping with the Mahinda Chinthana vision of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, its objective is to make Sri Lanka self-sufficient in liquid milk and make it available to school children through dairy farms in the respective areas.

It will also benefit local farmers and secure their economic future.

The campaign commenced with the participation of 1,406 students at the Good Shepherd Convent, Nuwara Eliya.

Deputy Economic Development Minister Muththu Sivalingam was the chief guest where in addition to milk, an egg was given free to each student.

Participating in the event, Nuwara Eliya District Secretary P. P. Kumarasiri expressed the hope that this would greatly help to eliminate malnutrition in the district which has recorded the highest percentage of malnutrition among infants in the country.

Sri Lanka has 9,662 state-run schools where nearly 3.9 million children study.

Under this programme each student will be given 150 milliltres of milk.

The programme will be extended to cover all schools with the assistance of the Education Ministry, according to Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa.

Kumarasiri said 120,000 litres of milk per day are being produced in Nuwara Eliya and the recent problem involving 30,000 litres of milk has now been solved since milk produced in each village will be sold among the people under the new programme.

 

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