Hanoi to continue school milk programme in new academic year
Hanoi will continue to implement the school milk programme at its pre-school and primary schools in the 2019-2020 academic year which will start in early September.
Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Education and Training Pham Xuan Tien addresses the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoiwill continue to implement the school milk programme at its pre-school andprimary schools in the 2019-2020 academic year which will start in earlySeptember.
At a conference on August 6 onthe school milk programme, Deputy Director of the municipal Department ofEducation and Training Pham Xuan Tien said milk will continue to be supplied tolocal school children as from September 6. The programme will end on May 29,2020, the last day of the school year.
The deputy director requireddistrict and communal departments of education and training to conductinspections of milk supply at schools to ensure food safety, and support localauthorities to encourage parents to register their children for the programme,under which families only have to pay 47 percent of the milk price. Poor, near-poor, ethnic minority students and socialpolicy beneficiaries will receive free milk under the programme.
Schools are requested to ensure that childrendrink milk right in school, not giving milk to children to bring home.
The school milk programme wasstarted at schools in Hanoi on January 2, 2019, and just on the first day, 64percent of children at local preschool and primary schools joined theprogramme. After one week, 100 percent of public preschool and primary schoolsand 61.8 percent of private schools participated in the programme, and the rateof participating students reached 73 percent.
By the end of the 2018-2019 school year,1,039,458 out of 1,185,179 preschool and primary students in the cityparticipated in the programme.
The school milk programme waslaunched nationwide on September 28, 2016. It targets providing all pre-schoolchildren and elementary pupils in poor districts with milk by 2020.
To implement the programme, the Government has called onorganisations, enterprises and individuals to participate, especially in poorareas.
However, only 13 cities and provinces have implemented theprogramme.-VNA
The northern province of Bac Ninh has decided to splash out more than 420 billion VND (18.5 million USD) on a school milk programme for more than 557,000 pre-school and primary pupils during 2017-2020.
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Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Education and Training Pham Xuan Tien addresses the event (Photo: VNA) 
