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GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHANOFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER, MID-DAY-MEAL

ANNUAL WORK PLAN AND BUDGET 2010-11

1. INTRODUCTION:

1.1 Brief history, objectives and rational of the Mid Day Meal Programme:

Mid-Day-Meal Programme is being implemented under the Administrative Control of Panchayti Raj Department in Rajasthan. Mid-Day-Meal is provided to all students of Class I to VIII studying in 80670 Government, Government Aided, schools run by local bodies, EGS/AIE centers, Minority based institutions and centers under National Child Labour Projects.

Govt. Govt. Aided

AIE Centres

EGS Centres

Madarsa Total

73866 714 1618 1562 2910 80670

State Government started providing cooked meal in Mid-Day-Meal programme from July, 2002 from the state budget. To provide cooked meal, State Government was providing Rs. 0.50 per student per day for conversion charges since July 2002. Under this programme, Ghooghri / Dalia etc. was served. From January 2005, the cooking conversion cost was increase to Rs. 1.50 per student per day. It was then, that new recipes such as Dal-Bati, Dal-Roti, Roti-Sabji, Sweet/ Namkeen Rice, Khichdi, Dalia, Pulav etc. were introduced. From March, 2006 the cooking conversion cost was further increased to Rs. 2.00 per student per day for primary students. In October 2007, the state government started implementing Mid Day Meal in Classes from VI to VIII in Educationally Backward Blocks. And later this was implemented in all the blocks with Rs. 2.50 per student for upper primary students. In 2008 the Central Share was increased by 4% to Rs. 1.58 for Primary & Rs. 2.10 for Upper Primary level. The menu includes a provision to provide seasonal fruits once a week along with Mid-Day-Meal. GoI vide its letter dated 24.11.2009 has increased the cooking cost to Rs. 2.50 and Rs. 3.75 for Primary and Upper Primary level respectively to be implemented w.e.f 01.12.09. As per Government of India the expenditure shall be borne in 75:25 ratios between the Centre and the State.


Administrative Setup of programme

Minister, RD & PRD

State Minister, RD & PRD

Pr. Secretary, RD & Principal Secretary (PR)

Commissioner (MDM)

Deputy Director(Finance)

Deputy Director(Imp.)

Deputy Director(Adm.)

School data, including (i) number of schools (government, EGS and AIE centers), (ii) enrollment (by category and gender), (iii) drop-outs (by category and gender)

1.2 Process of Plan Formulation.

The enrollment figures of each year are based on enrollment figures of 30th September of every year. These figures are provided by the State Education Department on yearly basis and these figures are a fundamental requirement in Plan Formulation.Average attendance rate is assesed for Primary and upper primary levels and the calculation of foodgrains and fund requirement is done as per the enrollment and average attendace in schools.Numbers of School days in a particular year are based on the Shivira Calender applicable in all the schools as per the guidelines of State Education Department. Availability of Balance Foodgrains and Funds is also taken into consideration while assesing the actual requirement. Also actual numbers of infrastructure units being created is obtained from districts and the current year requirement for each district is ascertained. In the month of January during the State plan BFC (Budget Finalizing Committee), necessary budgetary proposals for the next Financial year are to be got approved as per GoI norms of funds sharing Pattern and there on incorporated in the Annual Action Plan.


2. Description and assessment of the programme implemented in the current year (2009-10) and proposal for the next year (2010-11) with reference to:

2.1 Regularly and wholesomeness of mid day meals served to children reasons for programme interruption, if any and planning to minimize them.

Hot cooked, whole some varied food is being served every day as per details given below :-

Sr.No. Day Menu Calorific value

Protein (grams)

1 Monday Chapati - vegetable 436 11.82 Tuesday Dal, vegetable/rice 583 15.43 Wednesday Khichdi (Dal, rice,

vegetable etc)496 13.1

4 Thursday Chapati- Dal 575 20.25 Friday Dal-Bati 602 21.46 Saturday Chapati- vegetable 450 12

Average Class I to V 507 15.6Foodgrains are used @ 100 gm. for primary section and 150 gm. for upper primary students. This meal must contain 450 calories and 12 grams of protein for primary student and 700 calories and 20 gm protein for Upper Primary students. Meal according to local demand and practice may be provided once a week.

There has been no interruption in the programme and Mid day Meal is been provided to each eligible student on every school day through out the year.

Regular inspections and intensive checking is been done in each school by officers of different level and it is been ensured that no school going child should be deprived of MDM.

2.2 Food grains management, including adequacy of allocation, timeliness of lifting, transportation and distribution, and suitability of storage at different levels. Challenges faced and plan to overcome them.

The requirement is ascertained before the end of every financial year and communicated well in time to GoI. Immediately after receiving the allocation from GoI, districts are informed about their entitlement of food grains. Following are the high lights of food grain transportation system in Rajasthan:


1. Earlier RAJFED was designated as State Nodal Transportation Agency.

2. From year 2007-08, Department for Food & Civil Supplies has been designated as the state nodal transportation agency in place of RAJFED.

3. Food grains are lifted on a monthly basis by the district authorities from FCI depots. Example, for implementation of Mid Day Meal Programme for the month of February 2010, food grains are supplied to the schools by the mid of January 2010. Sometimes, food grains are lifted to cater the requirement of two months.

4. A liaison between CEO, Zila Parishad and DSO is essential to ascertain the monthly requirement of foodgrains and for an uninterrupted supply of Mid Day Meal.

5. District Collector/ CEO Zila Parishad/ District Elementary Education Officer issues an authorization letter to depute one officer for each Block who shall be responsible for the efficient lifting and distribution of foodgrains.

6. A Committee is constituted for ensuring FAQ of food grains. The primary responsibility of this committee is to first inspect the quality of foodgrains at the FCI godowns and approve lifting of foodgrains.

7. After the recommendation of this Committee, food grains are lifted by transportation agency. This work is ensured by district supply officer.

8. Transportation agency picks up the food grains according to the requirement communicated by the Block.

9. Block level transportation agency distributes the food grains at door-step of every school.

10. In case food grains are to be stored, then they are kept in a godown under double-lock system. One key of the godown remains with BDO/BEO and the other key with the transporting agency.

11. Transportation agency submits the food grains distribution receipt to nodal agency at Block level and all such receipts are compiled at this level.

12. Every school submits the food grains receipt to the BDO/BEO. BEO/BDO cross-checks the food grains distribution/ receipt information submitted by two independent sources and in case any difference is found, due action is taken.


13. Generally, no separate godowns are available at school level. However, Kitchen-cum-stores are being constructed in schools. Under this construction, a set lay out has been designed for sufficient space for storage.

2.3 System for release of funds provided under cooking costs (Centre and State). Please indicate the dates when the fund was released to Directorate/State Authority, district/Block/Gram Panchayat and finally to the Cooking Agency/School.

As per new directions the cooking cost for Class I to V has been increased to Rs. 2.50 (Rs. 1.87 Central Share and Rs.0.63 State Share) and for Class VI to VIII Rs.3.75 (Rs. 2.81 Central Share and Rs. 0.94 State Share) per day per child. As per Government of India guidelines the expenditure shall be borne in 75:25 ratio between the Centre and the State.For all kind of assistance (Cooking Conversion Cost, Construction of Kitchen, Provisioning of Cooking Devices, MME and Transportation Subsidy) following is the fund flow system in Rajasthan:

i) Fund released by GOI first comes in the State exchequer.ii) After receiving the allocation MDM Department confirms the

receipt of funds through the Govt. website and proceeds further. iii) After confirmation of fund receipt, concurrence of Planning

Department is taken for releasing the funds to Districts. iv) Planning Department internally seeks approval from Finance

Department (Expenditure). v) After concurrence of Planning Department, administrative

orders to release the funds are issued by MDM Department. The funds are allocated to the districts in proportion to the enrollment.

vi) After Department's administrative sanction, Finance Department (Budget) releases Budget Transfer orders to all Treasury Officers.

vii) On production of MDM Administrative sanction and budget transfer letter issued by Finance Department the District Treasury Officers transfer the funds in Zila Parishads PD account.

viii) After transfer of funds in Zila Parishad PD account, Zila Parishad in turn releases the funds to BDO/BEO according to enrollment of the area, who further releases the funds to SDMCs/schools on quarterly basis.


Above system is followed by State Finance Department for all Departments where funds are received from external sources. The release of funds takes nearly 2 months to be finally disbursed to the implementing agency.

Details of Cooking Conversion Cost Funds released (GoI and State) and disbursed further (Up to 20.01.2010)

S. No

Head Amount(Lakh Rs)

Released by GoI on

Agreed by State FD on

Released to Districts on

Released to blocks in

1 Centre 6087.99 15.05.09 29.07.09 13.08.09 15 days2 State 2250.00 --- 26.05.09 11.06.09 15 days3 Centre 11531.12 03.11.09 21.12.09 04.01.10 15 days4 State 2250.00 --- 10.11.09 18.11.09 15 days5 State 5000.00 --- Pending Pending Pending

2.4 System for procuring cooking ingredients (Pulses. Vegetables including leafy ones, salt, condiments, oil, and fuel etc.), commodities which are centrally purchased and supplied to schools or locally purchased at school level.

Mid Day Meal is being provided to every eligible and present student either by meal cooked at centralized kitchen or meal cooked at school level. Cooking ingredients for centralized kitchen are purchased by the concerned NGO. Ingredients for decentralized cooking are locally purchased by the cook of the school or the MDM incharge in schools from the local markets. Schools where Anna Purna women corp. societies (AWCS) are providing MDM, the Societies arranges for all the required material.

2.5 System for cooking, serving and supervising mid day meals in the school and measures to prevent any untoward happening.

i) In NGO operated centralized Kitchens the overall responsibility of cooking and supplying meals up to schools is of the concerned NGO. There is a district level committee of 5 officers which regularly monitors the cooking process and transportation of the cooked meals from the kitchens to the Schools.

ii) In decentralized/school cooking, the meals is cooked by a local resident preferably a women.

iii) A local committee comprising of school headmaster, teacher, representative of Panchayat, a local woman,


ANM/VLW, constituted at school level supervise the meal distribution work.

iv) School Development & Management Committee (SDMC) is overall responsible for effective implementation of the Programme at school level.

v) A group of women (called as Annpurna Women Cooperative Society) is also providing Mid Day Meal in 2 Panchayats of every Block. Meal is cooked either at school of Panchayat/village level. And is then distributed to all schools of the Panchayat/village. Presently 463 Annapurna Women Cooperative Societies are providing meal in approx. 3000 schools benefiting more than 3.25 lakh students.

2.6 Procedure for getting Kitchen shed constructed.

The concept of Ideal Kitchen shed was introduced in the State whilst looking in the problems of inadequate storage, no proper ventilation and poor infrastructure for cooking under MDM.

i) So far more than 60000 kitchens cum store have been sanctioned/constructed by dovetailing funds from various developmental schemes in the last 4 years.

ii) A sum of Rs. 6216.60 Lakh were released by GOI for construction of 10361 kitchen in the year 2007-08, Rs. 10069.26 Lakhs were released in 2008-09 for construction of 16782 kitchens and Rs. 24034.20 were released for 40057 kitchens in 2009-10. Out of these releases the State Govt. has released the entire amount to the districts and an expenditure equalient to 80% has been reported so far.

iii) Due efforts are being made to construct more and more kitchen from SGRY and other developmental schemes.

iv) Kitchen construction work is done by the gram panchayats as per the prescribed model specifications and plinth area. All Gram panchayats submit their reports in the fortnightly held Gram Sabha meetings and also for social audits. Cost of material does vary from place to place and the construction is been done according to the local BSR rates applicable. Presently the average cost of kitchen construction per unit is Rs. 90000/-.

v) In every district there is a nodal officer appointed to monitor and look after the kitchen contruction process. This officer is of the rank of an Asst. Engineer (mostly from Zila Parishad of the district concerned).


2.7 Procedure of procurement of kitchen devices from (i) funds released under the Mid Day Meal Programme (ii) other sources

i) Upto the year 2008-09 a sum of Rs.1145.43 Lakh were released by GOI for procurement of kitchen devices etc. for 22900 schools @ Rs. 5000/- per school. Out of this, kitchen devices have been procured in the equal number of schools.

ii) Local residents and donors are being requested to provide serving/eating/cooking utensils for effective implementation of MDM Programme.

iii) During year 2009-10, GOI has given assistance for procument of cooking devices in 54260 schools.

vi) By all possible efforts so far nearly half of the schools have been provided adequate serving/eating/cooking utensils.

vii) Earlier procurement of such devices was done at school level by the SDMC but now onwards centralized procurement of utensils is been done at each district headquarter by the district level purchase committee. This helps in procuring similar types and sizes of the devices/utensils and a detailed tender procedure is followed for this activity. Also it is essential to embrose the name of the scheme on all the procured cooking and serving devices.

2.8 Capacity building and training conducted for different categories of persons involved in the Mid Day Meal Programme.

i) Time to time training programmes have been held for District level officers, data Entry operators, Centralized Kitchen Managers and Nodal officers for Kitchen shed construction involved in MDM Programme.

ii) However, State Education Department has been requested to incorporate Mid Day Meal Agenda as a part of Teachers Training.

iii) NGOs running centralized kitchen have been requested to impart training to persons of nearby area who are directly involved in implementation of MDM Programme. Trainings to members of Annapurna Women Cooperative Societies have been given in 4 districts namely Bhilwara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Rajsamand.

iv) MDM Directorate has prepared a proposal of Rs. 3 Crores to train one cook and one teacher from every school.


Directorate is trying to mobilize funds for this purpose. It is requested that GOI may provide funds for this activity.

v) A software has been developed for compiling all relevant reports under the programme and is intended to be used as a single point of collecting information. In order to increase the effectiveness of the software, time to time training about feeding and using the software is provided to Mid Day Meal Incharges and Computer Operator of each district vide training programmes organized at the State Level. Further, this training is carried forward and provided to the Block level officers by the district officers

2.9 Management Information System at School, Village / Gram

Panchayat, Block, District and State Level.

1. The implementation of Mid Day Meal Programme is the responsibility of SDMC at school level.

2. The Head Master/Teacher and Incharge at the school level maintain the day to day record of the Programme. There are two registers to be maintained at school level. One for register funds (cash book) and second one for other details like foodgrain record.

3. At the month end, every school submits its monthly progress report to the nodal school of the area.. The nodal school further conveys the MPR to Block level Officers. And the Block level officer compiles all the reports received from various schools and communicates it to the District level Officer who in turn compiles the entire district progress report and forwards it to the Headquarter.

4. A position has been sanctioned, out of the MME fund, to hire one computer with operator at Block level on contract basis. This enables the working at all 237 blocks for maintaining proper records and to generate monthly progress report.

5. Meetings at both the Block and District level are held on a monthly basis by the concerned officers. Time to time meetings with DLO’s is organized at State Level to review the overall progress of the programme.

6. A detailed software has been developed by the department and is available online from July 2008 on department's web site. Month on month feeding is been done in this software by the block and district level officers. All these reports are compiled


at the State Level at the end of the month to review the problems and discrepancies if any.

7. The consolidated report of all the districts is then sent to GoI and for further analysis.

2.10 Systems to ensure transparency and openness in all aspects of programme implementation, including inter alia, food grain management, ingredients procurement, cooking and serving, appointment of cooking staff, construction of kitchen sheds, procurement of cooking devices.

To ensure transparency, following steps have been taken:

1. Weekly menu is displayed on the 'notice board' of every school. 2. Honorarium payable to cook is also displayed on notice board. 3. Department has designed suitable formats to collect key

information from the schools, on the visit of any officers information is collected in these prescribed format and feedback generated thereafter for further necessary action to be taken.

4. A format has been prescribed for recording the progress under Kitchen Shed Construction. AEN’s have been appointed as the nodal officer for reviewing the construction of Kitchen Shed in each district. The AEN’s submit reports to the officers at District level and all reports compiled at the State level on a monthly basis.

5. Procurement of kitchen devices, equipments and utensils is done by SDMC at local level and its subsequent accounts checked in the social audit.

6. Due audit as per government procedure is being done by respective department.

7. Food grains utilization is checked in proportion to students benefited.

8. Public Private Partnership:- The State Government has taken keen interest in involving Charitable Trusts, NGOs for voluntary community support under the scheme in Rajasthan to contribute towards providing a wholesome meal to children.

9. In place of Baal Jeeman Yojna, a scheme Nk=ksa ds Hkkstu esa lekt dk ;ksxnku was introduced in 2009 to mobilize the assistance from each section of the society to enhance the local participation in improving the quality of Mid Day Meal. The assistance may be in cash or kind to support the programme.


2.11 Measures taken to rectify

a. Inter district low and uneven utilization of food grains and cooking cost – It is true that utilization of food grains in some districts is below the State average. It indicates that either the enrollment is more and actual no. of students attending the school is less or average attendance rate in these districts is much less than State average. The Department is seriously concerned on both issues and regularly brings the above position in the notice of concerned district administration and education department. In the meetings held at the State Level, the education Department is emphasized to provide us with authenticated figures of enrollment, so that a the gap between the utilization and State Average can be minimized.

b. Intra–district mismatch in utilization of food grains and cooking cost –The reports submitted by CEO, Zila Parishad are regularly analyzed at Headquarter level and comments on the progress / mismatch in the figures are send to the concerned District Collector/CEO, ZP. With continuous monitoring of these issues, the mismatch in utilization of food grains and funds utilized has narrowed down.

c. Delay in delivering cooking cost at school level - The release of Central / State funds takes nearly 2 – 3 months to be finally disbursed to the implementing agency. This issue has been brought in the notice of the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary, Planning and Finance. Due to savings accrued in previous years sufficient funds are available in State Head at every level i.e. Districts, Blocks and School levels and the programme is implemented uninterruptedly.

2.12 Details of Evaluation studies conducted and summary of its findings.

During the year 2007 – 08, an independent external evaluation agency Research Development Initiative Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (RDI) was appointed by department. RDI has submitted its final report to the State Government which has been forwarded to Jt. Secretary, Ministry of HRD, GOI and Principal Secretary, State Education Deptt. vide letter no. 215 dated 4th Feb. 08. State Institute for Educational


Research and Training (SIERT) has also done several evaluation studies of MDM implementation in the State. In 2009-10 CDECS has done evaluation study of Mid-Day Meal Scheme in 14 districts of the State. The study was conducted in 2 of the Panchayat Samitis in 14 district selecting 100 schools from each Block on a random basis (80 rural and 20 urban area schools).The major findings/problems/suggestions pointed out in these studies are as under:

Major Findings of evaluation / study

1. The enrolment of students in primary sections has decreased each year since 2004-05 whereas data of Upper Primary classes show an increasing trend from 2004-05 to 2008-09

2. The study also suggested increased learning level among students and reduced classroom hunger due to MDM. There have been signs of improved health of students and good eating habits amongst students due to MDM.

3. The reasons for dropout of students from the Government Schools were as follows:

a. Government Schools being located at distant place from home.

b. Lack of teachers in schools/ teachers do not reach the schools.c. Classes are not organized properly.d. Lack of facilities in Government Schools.e. General preference towards Private Schools.f. Better learning environment in private schools.g. Classes are not held regularly in the Government Schools.h. Play element lack in Government Schools.

4. Availability of water for washing hands & drinking was found in majority of the schools.

5. Almost cent percent of parents (illiterate labourers and farmers) said that children consume MDM from their schools.

6. MDM was a motivating factor for sending their children to school. 7. More than ¾ of the respondent said that quality was good and

quantity was adequate.8. Majority said that MDM scheme had improved the health of their

children. 9. Majority said that MDM had helped in reducing social inequalities

among children. 10. Majority of parents opined that MDM had helped in improving

academic performance of their children.


11. More than ¾ of the teachers were of the opinion that MDM had helped in improving the concentration of children in classes.

12. Majority of teachers believe that there was no adverse effect on teaching due to their involvement in MDM scheme.

Problems:

13. Shortage of water and fuel seems to be the major problems of cooks.

14. Lack of community participation, proper monitoring and management skills among school authorities were also reported.

15. The functioning of the Mid Day Meal programme is dependent on the number of school children and the attendance thereof. It has been witnessed that the attendance remains relatively low during summer vacations which leads to exploitation of resources while effectiveness is not pertinent.

Suggestions:

16. Improving school infrastructure, ensuring proper monitoring, increasing community participation were the major suggestions. Introduction of gas based cooking is to be excercised to the maximum.

17. Availibility of cooking conversion cost in schools needs to be strengthened because they it does not reach to the schools in due time. Also adequate stock of foodgrains minimum for three months requirement is to be ensured in the schools for uninterrupted supply of meals.

18. Community members should be mobilized to the maximum possibility for building better co-operation and accountability. Only a mobilized community can contribute to the process of school development. Also SDMC’s should be compulsorily active in MDM implementation in schools.

19. Logistics and facilities available at the block and district level need to be reviewed time to time.

20. There is a strong need to understand the basic problems emerging in supply of MDM trrough Centralized kitchens/AMSS and act accordingly.

2.13 Brief write up on best practices followed in the State.


1. Annapurna Mahila Sahkari Samiti (AMSS) – A pilot approach of AMSS was promoted in November 2005. It is a society registered under Rajasthan Society Act and all the members of these societies are women. Implementation of MDM Programme is done by these AMSS in selected schools. The cooking is done by member of AMSS or cook appointed by AMSS. All ingredients are arranged by AMSS. The major advantage of AMSS is that Food is cooked under the eyes of students / teachers, no involvement of teachers, no responsibility of school authority in maintaining the accounts and involvement of local women, regular audit by auditor is also ensured. Meal cooking agency and verifying agencies are different so beneficiary figures are more reliable and authentic.

2. Public Private Partnership – Various NGOs are invited by the State Government to contribute for betterment of MDMS. These NGOs have to establish a modern mechanized centralized kitchen catering minimum of ten thousand students. Presently under the Public Private Policy, the programme is functioning with the support of 07 NGO’s managing 22 Central Kitchens in various districts and feeding almost 7.00 lac students in about 7800 schools. Only such NGO’s are encouraged who are capable of putting additional funds from their own resources for value addition. These NGOs have to act according to the MOU signed by them. MDM trust has been constituted under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary. This trust has collected donations of about Rs. 1 crore upto 2008-09. These funds are being utilized for creation of infrastructure.

3. Dovetailing relief funds for construction of kitchen cum store.

2.14 Instances of unhygienic food served, children falling ill, substandard supplies, diversion / misuse of resources, social discrimination and safety measures adopted to avoid recurrence of such incidents.

MDM is a large programme covering nearly 80 lakh student in the State. Some instances were reported to the Government about children falling ill due to quality of food. For monitoring and avoid such instances, a committee is formed comprising of 5 local residents who ascertain the process of cooking of food under MDM and give an unbiased feedback to the district/block level authorities.

Time to time meetings with all concerned officers is called for to discuss agenda like hygiene, cleanliness, quantity of micro nutrients to


be given, quality of food, mechanism of cooking, containers being used, value added services, etc.

In order to ensure the quality being served under Mid Day Meal Scheme time to time inspections are done by school, block, district and state level authorities. The department has moreover engaged the Project Officers and the Dy. Commissioners to make visits to as many districts as possible per month to note and rectify all the irregularities at schools and central kitchens.

2.15 Extent of involvement of NGOs and Civic body organizations (CBOs)/PRI in the implementation and monitoring of the scheme.

Under PPP module presently 22 centralized kitchens are being managed by NGOs. The cost of set up of centralized kitchen is borne by these NGOs. The average cost of the meal is about Rs. 3.50 per student per day. All PRIs are requested to regularly inspect the functioning of MDMS. A simple format for checking MDMS has also been designed by the department. Members of gram panchayat are members of SDMC and also the committee for inspection of food preparation. Also there are PRI members included in MDM Steering cum Monitoring Commitees constituted at three levels.


The details of centralized kitchens along with the setup cost and value addition done by the NGO (2009-10):

Up to Dec- 09 Class 1-8

Sr.No

Name of N.G.O. Place

Capacity of

kitchen

Cost of kitchen (Rs Lac)

No. of schools

Enrolment of

Students

Value addition by NGO (Rs. Per Meal)

Name of donor

Functional Status

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101 Akshay Patra

Foundation Jaipur 150000 609.00 1128 111249 2.73 Own funds of N.G.O.

Operational

2 Akshay Patra Foundation

Nathdwara (Raj

Samand)10000 35.50 168 14616 3.43 Own funds of

N.G.O.Operational

3 Naandi Foundation Udaipur 70000 161.33 1017 86129 2.49

Interest free Advance from

GOROperational

4 Naandi Foundation

Salumber (Udaipur) 50000 82.50 461 36760 2.49 HZL+MLALA

DOperational

5 Naandi Foundation Bhilwara 20000 89.76 529 47804 2.56

Various Companies &

Public Contribution

Operational

6 Naandi Foundation

Gangrar (Chittor) 20000 74.84 393 20753 2.53 Hindustan zinc

Limited NZL Operational

7 Naandi Foundation

Mandhafia (Chittor) 20000 88.29 384 29617 2.49 Aditya cement Operational

8 Naandi Foundation

Kapasan (Chittor) 25000 80.13 517 25669 2.51 HZL Operational

9 Naandi Foundation

Nimbhaheda (Chittor) 20000 88.76 242 22340 2.60 HZL Operational

10 Naandi Foundation

Gandhi Nagar (Chittor) 15000 82.93 124 25225 2.51 Aditya Birla

GroupOperational

11 Naandi Foundation Jhalawar 30000 88.62 274 38932 2.45

DCM Shriram Consolidated

Ltd.Operational


Kishangarh (Ajmer) 25000 80.58 230 22562 2.51

R.K.Marble+MP LAD+ MLA LAD

Operational



Govindgarh (Jaipur) 40000 110.00 207 22521 2.53 Mahindra &

Mahindra Ltd.Operational


14 Naandi Foundation Dungarpur 80000 56.63 245 23529 1.81 Bohara

CommunitiesOperational


Jhadol (Udaipur) 25000 89.09 127 17157 2.51 Nil Operational

16 Naandi Foundation Kota 50000 88.00 12 1444 2.31 DSCL + UIT Operational

17 Naandi Foundation Bikaner 40000 65.00 117 31619 2.49

UIT + Sh.S.L Duggar Trust,

CalcuttaOperational

18 QRG Foundation Alwar 15000 25.00 111 15262 3.04 Own funds Operational

19 ISKCON Jaipur 15000 20.00 173 13974 2.32 Own funds Operational

20 Ganshayam Seva Samiti (Delhi) Churu 30000 28.00 275 19333 1.22 Own funds Operational

21 Adamya Chetna Trust Jodhpur 85000 105.00 528 75916 1.19

Interest free Advance from

GOROperational

22Hope Health Care Organization

Dholpur 100000 35.00 181 25378 2.40 Nil Operational

Sub Total (Operational) 22 kitchens 935000 2183.96 7443 727789 2.66


Kotra (Udaipur) 20000 89.09 170 0.00 MLALAD+

Own fundsYet to be Operational

24 Naandi Foundation Ajmer 40000 88.00 117 0.00 MPLAD

MLALADYet to be Operational

Sub Total (Under Imp.) 2 Kitchens 60000 177.09 287 N.A

Total 24 Kitchens 995000 2361.05 7730 727789

2.16 Status of School Health Programme with special focus on provision of micro nutrients, Vitamin A, de-worming medicine, Iron and Folic Acid, Zinc and recording of height, weight etc.

Medical & Health Department of the State carries out medical checkup of the students and deficient students are given medical aid and micro nutrients such as Vitamin A, iron folic acid, multi vitamin,


Deworming tablets etc. Every deficient student is provided micro nutrients for 100 days.

During the year 2006-07, 22.37 Lakh students were given aid for medical and micro nutrient. To fund this requirement, Mid Day Meal Directorate has provided a sum of Rs. 09.62 Crores from the Mid Day Meal State Budget for procurement and distribution of micro nutrients.

During the year 2009-10 Medical & Health Department has carried on several health checking campaigns and is also providing required micro nutrients/medicine etc. to the students. This activity has been mainly carried under the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission).

2.17 Steps taken to strengthen the monitoring mechanism in the Block, District and State level and status of constitution of SMCs at these levels. Status of formation on Standing Committee at village /school/cooking agency level.

Steering Committee at Block, District and State level has been constituted. These committees are regularly reviewing the MDMS. The copy of the minutes of district level committee meetings are analyzed by the department and necessary action is being taken and instructions issued accordingly. A standing agenda has also been fixed by the department to cover all major and critical issues.

2.18 Arrangement for official inspections to MDM centers and percentage of schools inspected and summary of findings and remedial measures.

Intensive on the spot checking are being conducted regularly in all districts on campaign basis without pre intimation to schools through district/block level officers. In one campaign, maximum number of schools are tried to be covered within 1 or 2 days time. A format has been prescribed for such inspections, all data is been analyzed by the Department and necessary actions are being taken.According to the regular inspection procedure also it is been ensured that each school gets inspected atleast twice a year.whenever there is any serious discrepancy noticed, it is duly intimated to the Education department and made sure that disciplinary action is initiated agaist the guilty.


2.19 Feedback / Comments in respect of report of monitoring Institutions designated for you State / UT to monitor implementation of MDM and action taken thereon.

GOI has designated Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as monitoring institution. During last year findings/ suggestions of a report from IDS was discussed. Most of the findings had shown the programme as a beneficiary oriented one and suggested to strengthen the basic infrastructure to implement the programme in a much better way. First half yearly monitoring report (period 01-08-2002 to 31-01-2009) has been submitted by IDS which had coverd four districts of the State (Ajmer, Baran, Bikaner & Chittorgarh). The report mainly emphasises on the following points which have to be resolved at the earliest:-

i) Kitchen shed constructed should be used compulsorily and food in all such schools should not be prepared in open area

ii) Funds for cooking purposes should be transferred in a bank account held in the name of either the school or the SDMC.

iii) Payment of cooks should be made on timeiv) This has to be ensured that every school has a Kitchen shed

constructed by the earliestv) Provisioning of micro nutrients to be made compulsory.

2.20 Overall assessment of the manner in which implementation of the programme is contributing to the programme objectives and an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the programme implementation.

Objectives of the Programme: The Mid Day Meal programme seeks to address the most urging problems for the children in India, namely, hunger and education, by:

1. Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I to VIII in all Government, Local Body and Government aided schools, and EGS and AIE centres and centres under National Child Labor Projects and Madarsas.

2. Encouraging poor children, belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities, hereby, foster enrollment, increase retention and decrease drop outs.

3. Provide nutritional support to children of Class I to VIII in drought affected areas during summer vacation.


Strengths of the Programme:

1. Rigorous efforts are being made to cover all the students in the included Government, Local Body and Government aided schools, and EGS and AIE centres and centres under National Child Labor Projects and Madarsas.

2. Intensive checking campaigns are diligently conducted under the programme to check the effectiveness of the scheme. Inspection formats has been prescribed which gets filled and ultimately is submitted to the senior officials concerned. A copy of the same reaches the Mid Day Meal Commissionerate and Corrective measures are taken based on these findings which result in qualitative improvement in programme implementation.

3. Targets have been laid down for district/block level officials for regular inspections and format prescribed thereof (inspections carried out by Divisional Commissioners and Secretary Incharges too during their field visit).

4. National Steering cum Monitoring Committee is setup at the State, District and Block Level in the State of Rajasthan. Regular monthly meetings are conducted at the District and Block level and reports submitted on a monthly basis at the Mid Day Meal Commissioner Office by the District authorities. Necessary directions are issued accordingly to streamline the functioning of the programme.

5. At the grass root level a 7 member committee has been setup to inspect the food prepared by the NGO/SDMC/AMSS before distributing the meals to the children. This committee constitutes of a public representative who is involved so that a genuine feedback is obtained.

6. Also, there is a School Development Management Committee at each school level comprising of 13 members and is diligently engaged in the monitoring of the food prepared under Mid Day Meal Scheme through the cooks.

7. A major chunk of the funds under the MME head gets utilized in the study of the Mid Day Meal Scheme every year, outsourced to private agency, which highlights the trend/ impact of the scheme on enrollment, retention and drop out. The study help to cognize the overall effect of the scheme on the society and the first hand suggestions gathered by the researchers from the parents, headmasters and local public are communicated to Headquarters for filtration and hence implementation.


Weakness of the programme:

1. The functioning of the Mid Day Meal programme is dependent on the number of school children and the attendance thereof. It has been witnessed that the attendance remains relatively low during summer vacations which leads to exploitation of resources while effectiveness is not pertinent.

2. Additional funds are required to engage Chartered Accountants for auditing Mid Day Meal accounts at block level.

3. Adequate funds are required for a post creation at the District Level exclusively for handling the work related to Mid Day Meal Scheme.

4. To protect the environment use of LPG is encouraged. But for LPG gas connection a huge security deposit is required. Either the security amount may be released by the GoI or Ministry may take up the issue with the Ministry of Petroleum.

5. To strengthen the basic infrastructure at the school level additional funds are required for making the scheme even more effective.


3. Action Plan for 2009-10: (provided in the tables attached)

Sr. No.

Table Particulars

1 AT-1 General Information – 2009-102 AT-2 Details of Provisions made in the State Budget 2009-103 AT-3 3A & 3B COVERAGE (No. of Institutions covered)

[Primary & Upper Primary]4 AT-4 & 4A District-wise information on Enrolment and Children availing

MDM for 2008-09 [Primary & Upper Primary]5 AT-5 & 5A Annual Plan Vs. PERFORMANCE (PY & U PY)6 AT-6 & 6A Utilization of foodgrains (PY & U PY)7 AT-7 & 7A Utilization of Cooking cost (PY & U PY)8 AT-8 Utilization of central assistance under Transportation cost. (PY

& U PY)9 AT-9 Utilization of Central Assistance towards MME (Classes I-

VIII) 10 AT-10 Utilization of Central Assistance towards construction of

kitchen sheds (Classes I-VIII)11 AT-11 Utilization of Central Assistance towards procurement of

kitchen devices (Classes I-VIII)12 AT-12 & 12A Number of school working days in 2010-11 ( PY & U PY)13 AT-13 & 13A Requirement of Central Assistance towards Foodgrains,

Cooking Assistance & Transport Assistance for 2009-10 for Primary Stage (Classes I-V)

14 AT-14 Requirement of Kitchen cum store in 2010-11.Utilization of Central Assistance towards procurement of kitchen devices (Classes I-VIII)

15 AT 14 A Requirement of Kitchen cum store as per plinth area norm16 AT-15 Requirement of Kitchen devices in PY & U PY in 2010-1117 AT-16 Weighing machines and height recorders in PY & U PY for

2009-10 18 AT-17 Requirement of cook cum helper during 2010-11 in Primary &

Upper Primary Schools 19 AT-18 Formation of standing committee at school level in Primary &

Upper Primary Schools 20 AT-19 Responsibility of Implementation 21 AT-20 Information of cooking agencies22 AT-21 Budget provision for the year 2010-1123 AT-22 Releasing of funds from State to Directorate/District/Block

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