Mid-Day Meal Programme was launched as a centrally sponsored scheme on 15th August 1995. Its objective was to boost universalization of primary education and to improve the nutritional status of children by the food being given to them at the school. Opinion of the rural school children, parents, teachers and community leaders are very much important to improve the policies and guidelines related to the programme. Therefore, an effort was made to study the opinion of rural school children about mid day meal programme. The study was conducted in the purposively selected two villages of Garag and Yettingudda of Dharwad district of northern Karnataka and two villages of Bhojla and Simarddha of Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh. From each village 30 rural school children, 30 parents, 20 community leaders and 10 teachers were randomly selected for the study. Purposively 120 rural school children of 5th, 6th, 7th standard belonged to 10-13 years of age group were selected. Structured interview schedule was used for collection of information. The data was analysed using suitable statistical parameters like frequencies, percentages, opinion index and class intervals. The present study showed that most of (92.50%) the rural school children had most favourable opinion about mid day meal programme and also most of (89.20%) the parents had most favourable opinion about mid day meal programme. Large majority of (78.30%) the teachers had most favourable opinion about mid day meal programme. Most of (92.50%) the community leaders had most favourable opinion about mid day meal programme. Thus it can be concluded that the mid day meal programme helps to change the mind sets of children which leads to change the mind set of parents and hence of the community about education and nutritional aspects of the children and this programme becomes one of the extrinsic motivation factors for increasing their enthusiasm for the study. Hence, this programme should be continued.