A third of younger school students in Saint Petersburg already receives hot meals free of charge

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It was declared by the governor Alexander Beglov, responding to the Message President of the Russian Federation to Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation where it was offered to provide with free hot meals of all pupils of initial schools with first on the fourth class. "Today the hot meals provided all pupils of 1-4 classes, that is more than 220 thousand children", - the mayor reported. According to Committee on education, according to the Social code Saint Petersburg about a third from them receive food free of charge. These are representatives of various preferential categories – disabled people, children from large and needy families and others...