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A Free lunch for India's Children

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Sep 24, 2010
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In India, the old adage "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is just about dead, it seems, at least for millions of the teeming country's children. An ambitious initiative recently passed into law mandates that every child receive a free lunch every school day until they reach year 10.

It's lunchtime at the Jawahar Nagar Sindhi government school in Ja…

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