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Vijay extends free-breakfast scheme to students through Class VIII

Source: NDTV · 22 Sep 2026, 07:03 UTC

Vijay’s government is extending free breakfast to students up to Class VIII while retaining the core of a flagship programme associated with the previous DMK administration. NDTV says the decision builds on, rather than dismantles, the earlier welfare scheme and gives it a new identity.

Vijay’s government has decided to extend free breakfast to students up to Class VIII, according to NDTV. The decision builds on a flagship scheme associated with the previous government and its DMK welfare record. Rather than dismantling the programme, Vijay’s administration is adding to it while giving the initiative a new identity.

The supplied report does not state how many students will benefit, when the extension will begin or how it will be funded. It also does not identify the new name or describe the meals that will be provided. The programme’s expansion places the decision within an existing welfare framework.

The report says the earlier breakfast scheme had become closely associated with the DMK’s record, but does not provide details of its original coverage or implementation. No response from the previous government, opposition parties, schools or families is included in the available material. The report also does not say whether the expansion applies across the state or only to specified schools.

The information supplied establishes the policy’s broader coverage and its relationship to the earlier programme, but provides no further operational details.

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