<span style="color: #222222;">The Centre today said, due to closure of schools during the current Covid-19 pandemic, cash is being reimbursed to all enrolled children in the form of DBT instead of hot cooked Mid-Day Meal.<br />'' <br />'' In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Education Annpurna Devi informed that since the schools are closed, the children are being given dry ration or food security allowance in DBT form by the states and Union Territories for the period of 2020-21 and 2021-22.<br />'' <br />'' The Minister said, the DBT allowance comprises the cost of food grains and cooking. She said, now progressively States are reopening schools, and provision of hot-cooked meals is being resumed.<br />'' <br />''<br />''The nomenclature of centrally sponsored scheme National Programme for Mid-Day Meal in schools has been changed to Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman </span>