Mid-Day Meal (Amendment) Rules, 2017

REGD. NO. D. L.-33004/99 EXTRAORDINARY II— — (i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 375] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017/VAISAKHA 26, 1939 MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (Department of School Education and Literacy) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 16th May, 2017 G.S.R. 471(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 39 of the National Food Security Act, 2013 (20 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Mid-Day Meal Rules, 2015, namely:— 1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These rules may be called the Mid-Day Meal (Amendment) Rules, (2) They come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Mid-Day Meal rules, in Rule 5, for sub-rule (2), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:- “(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.”. AJAY TIRKEY, Jt. Secy. Note : The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 743(E), dated the 30th September, 2015. and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. RAKESH SUKUL