Mid-day meal cooks’ honorarium raised to ₹3,000
On 23 August 2026 the UP Chief Minister raised the monthly honorarium of more than 3.53 lakh mid-day meal cooks under PM POSHAN from ₹2,000 to ₹3,000. Cooks and their families also get cashless treatment up to ₹5 lakh a year, a ₹2 lakh accident cover through SBI, and dress money doubled to ₹1,000.
UPPCS angle: GS-VI: school nutrition.
23 Aug 2026