Chennai, Aug. 27 -- The Punjab government will consider launching the breakfast scheme like that of Tamil Nadu, said chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday, who was in Chennai to attend the expansion of the "CM's breakfast scheme" to government aided schools across urban areas in Tamil Nadu.

The flagship programme of the Tamil Nadu government was launched in 2022 to provide free breakfast to school children studying in classes 1-5 in government schools which covered 300,000 students.

"From today, 20.59 lakh (2.059 million) students studying in 37,416 government and government-aided primary schools will benefit from the chief minister's breakfast scheme," chief minister MK Stalin said while launching the expansion. "Schools should not o...