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A yearly allocation of RM100 million will be provided by the government under the 1Malaysia Milk Programme (PS1M) for the benefit of more than 1.2 million primary school children across the country.
Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan said in an effort to help develop healthy intelligent children, students from 7,685 government primary schools will continue to benefit under the programme this year.
"The on-going programme is to ensure that the students continue to benefit from the goodness of milk which is particularly beneficial to the young," he told reporters today.
He said the ministry has proposed Sept 24, each year to celebrate World School Milk Day in line with the World Milk Day celebration.
Earlier, Kamalanathan represented Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Education Minister to launch the 2014 PS1M at the Sungai Kapar Indah School here, today.
Muhyiddin in his speech read by Kamalanathan said PS1M products should be placed under one brand so that it is easily recognizable and close monitoring was necessary to ensure that the standard of the milk under the programme was of the highest quality.
He said close attention should also be given to those who suffer from lactose intolerance as this would give rise to other complications.
"The next six years is an important transformation phase as we need to steer everyone in transforming towards achieving vision 2020. Therefore, producing a generation of healthy, alert and intelligent children is of utmost concern for the government," he said.
Through PS1M school children from low income families get to drink milk which is provided free by the government.
Jamie, PUAH
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