Karnataka launched the Mathrupoorna scheme in 2017 to provide one hot cooked meal daily to pregnant women and lactating mothers instead of take-home rations. The food is provided at the Anganwadi centres across the state to about 12 lakh beneficiaries. Each meal is expected to cover about 45% of the calorie and nutritional requirements of the beneficiaries and costs about Rs 20 for the exchequer. Karnataka started the scheme of providing eggs to the identified malnourished children of 5 districts of north Karnataka in 2014. Later, the scheme was extended to all SC/ST children in January 2017. In 2017-18, the scheme was extended to all the Anganwadi children (3-6 age groups) for six days a week. Those children who do not consume eggs were allowed to get bananas or any seasonal fruit.
As of 2018, the milk supply scheme in Karnataka was about five years old, and the egg supply scheme and Mathrupoorna scheme were about to complete a year. This project analysed these three schemes, i.e. Ksheera Bhagya, Srusti Scheme (Egg Supply Scheme) and Mathrupoorna, for their assessable impacts on the field.
