Egg in noon meal reduces dropout rate
Primary school dropout rates have dropped because of the supply of eggs in the noon meal scheme for school students in the State, Social Welfare Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna informed the Assembly on Monday. "In primary schools, the dropout rate in 2002-03 was 12 per cent. This came down to 2 per cent in 2006-07. One of the main reasons for this was the introduction of the scheme to give three eggs a week to the students,' she said and added that she had taken the statistics from the Audit report.