Selangor government to provide free meals for 70,000 exam candidates
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The Selangor government plans to provide free meals to approximately 70,000 students preparing for the SPM examinations in Malaysia.
Menteri besar Amirudin Shari announced the NutriSel SPM 2026 initiative to ensure that Form 5 students have breakfast or lunch during their core subject exams. The state government aims to help students feel motivated and enter examination halls without hindrance.
The NutriSel SPM 2026 initiative is part of a broader NutriSel programme that supports the nutritional needs of 104,640 primary and secondary school students from the B40 group, a low-income socio-economic category. This wider programme uses an allocation of more than RM12.5 million from local authorities and the state economic planning unit. Additionally, the government is distributing free bread and milk to 993,670 pupils across 962 schools in Selangor through the Mega NutriSel initiative.
This distribution, conducted with partners Farm Fresh and Gardenia, will continue until early November.
