The Federal Government has budgeted N142.3billion to feed 9.86 million children, deworm seven million children and recount the pupils in 2021 under the Home Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP), one of the components of the National Social Investment Programme.
PREMIUM TIMES reports that the proposed allocation for the NHGSFP accounts for 40.5 per cent of the total recurrent expenditure of the National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
The report furthered that the proposed N142.3 billion is meant to cater for the feeding of about 10 million, deworming of seven million primary 1-3 pupils in 35 states and FCT and 60,000 out-of-school children, enumeration of pupils and training of cooks and farmers.
It added that N2.7 billion is planned to be used for the purchase of feeding utensils, devices for capturing and aprons for cooks for the feeding programme.
The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has also proposed the expansion of the National Home Grown School Feeding Program through the addition of 5million children in conventional and non-conventional schools under the Alternate School Programme in the coming year, as contained in it's report to the National Assembly.
In all, the National Home-Grown School Feeding could gulp N145 billion in 2021 which is a slice from the N400 billion – N350 billion recurrent and N50 billion capital expenditure proposed to the National Assembly for the implementation of the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) in 2021.
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