Mid-Day Meal (Amendment ) Rules, 2017.

Mid-Day-Meal Guidelines, 2006 and Mid Day Meal Rules, 2015 provides for setting up of Centralised Kitchens for a cluster of schools in urban areas where there is a space constraint for construction of kitchens in individual schools. This Mid-Day Meal (Amendment ) Rules 2017 amends the sub-rule (2) of rule 5 of Mid-Day Meal Rules, 2015 as below: " ( 2 ) Every school shall have the facility for cooking meal in hygienic manner and the schools in urban areas and in identified rural areas which have good road connectiVity and viable cluster of schools, for the purpose of leveraging efficiency gains, may use the facility of centralised kitchens for cooking meals wherever required in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Central Government and the meal shall be served to children at respective school only."