The correct answer is Madras.

• Madras Municipal Corporation was the first Municipal Corporation to introduced the Midday meal program.

• The Midday meal scheme:
  • In 1925, a Mid Day Meal Programme was introduced for disadvantaged children in Madras Municipal Corporation. 
  • By the mid-1980s three States viz. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the UT of Pondicherry had universalized a cooked Mid Day Meal Programme with their own resources for children studying at the primary stage by 1990-91 the number of States implementing the mid-day meal programme with their own resources on a universal or a large scale had increased to twelve states.
  • With a view to enhancing enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August 1995, initially in 2408 blocks in the country.

• By the year 1997-98, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was introduced in all blocks of the country.
• It was further extended in 2002 to cover not only children in classes I -V of Government, Government aided and local body schools, but also children studying in the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and/or Alternative and Innovative Education (AIE).
• In September 2004 the scheme was revised to provide cooked mid-day meal with 300 calories and 8-12 grams of protein to all children studying in classes I – V in Government and aided schools and EGS/ AIE centres.
• In July 2006 the scheme was further revised to provide assistance for cooking cost at the rate of (a) Rs 1.80 per child/school day for States in the North Eastern Region.
• In October 2007, the scheme has been further revised to cover children in upper primary (classes VI to VIII) initially in 3479 Educationally Backwards Blocks (EBBs).
• From 1st April 2008, the programme covers all children studying in Government, Local Body and Government-aided primary and upper primary schools and the EGS/AIE centres including Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) of all areas across the country.