Mid-Day Meal (Amendment) Rules, 2017

Rule, 2017

A rule made under the The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

Kind Rule Year 2017 Jurisdiction Central Ministry Education Text 1,589 characters

Made under The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

Source document (PDF, 1.5 MB)

Text

Reproduced from the document India Code holds for this instrument. The Gazette prints Hindi and English side by side and this is the English; the Department's own PDF remains the authority.

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

Provisions this rule answers to

Read out of the instrument itself: an enabling provision is one it says it was made under, which is the power it rests on. The rest it names without resting on.

Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009

Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Recorded by India Code; the text, where shown, is what its own document carried. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.