Tax incentive for social welfare projects extended for the midday meal scheme, preserving the approved project cost and eligibility. The Central Government specified the 'Mid day meal project for district Fandabad, Haryana' as an eligible project under Section 35AC, carried out by a nonprofit food-relief foundation, and extended the project's eligible period for a further set of financial years commencing with the stated fiscal year, without any change to the previously approved project cost, following recommendation by the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare.