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This scheme is an outcome of extreme starvation at an age when I knew only to cry when I was hungry. But for the munificence of a woman next door who extended a bowl of rice gruel to us and saved us from the cruel hand of death, we would have departed this world long ago. Such merciful women folk, having great faith in me, elected me as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. To wipe the tears of these women I have taken up this project…
— film-star-turned-Chief-Minister, M.G. Ramachandran, 1982 introducing the guarantee of one meal a day to children in government aided schools.