Mid-day Meals SchemeAnnual Work Plan

Maharashtra 2010-2011

Secretary,School Education and Sports Dept. Govt. of Maharashtra

National Programme of National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Nutritional Support to Primary Education Education (Mid-Day-Meal Scheme(Mid-Day-Meal Scheme))

Mid day meals

Statistics POPULATION: 969 Lakhs NO. OF DISTRICTS 34

NO OF BLOCKS 353

LITERACY RATE 77.30%

NO OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS 84016

NO. OF SECONARY SCHOOLS 38822

ENROLLMENT IN STD 1-5 87.61 Lakhs

ENROLLMENT IN STD 6-8 48.12Lakhs

OPTED FOR MDM (1-5) 86.93 lakhs

OPTED FOR MDM (6-8) 47.99 lakhs

No. Of Institutions Covered During 2009-10 Primary, Upper

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No. of Insititution - Primary-84016 Upper Primary-38822

No. Of InstitutionsServing MDM - Primary-83239 Upper Primary-38779

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Enrollment and children opted for MDM

No.of Children opted for MDM : Primary- 8693541Upper Primary-4799110

Enrolment : Primary- 8761094Upper Primary-4812160

MDM – PAB Approval vs. Performance During 2009-10 (No.of meals)

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No .of Meals served Primary- 1078927923Upper Primary-586538017

No .of Meals to be served as per PAB : Primary- 1328867757Upper Primary-639794358

MDM – PAB Approval vs. Performance During 2009-10(availed MDM)

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Average No. of children availed MDM with respect

to no. of meals: Primary- 7054346Upper Primary-3843186

No .of Children as per PAB Approval :

Primary- 8253837Upper Primary-3973878

Utilisation of Foodgrain

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Rice Utilized (In MT )Primary- 104605Upper Primary-79804

Rice Lifted (In MT)Primary- 117586 Upper Primary-83223

Utilisation of Cooking cost

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Primary&UPP.PRY

Funds Utilized (Rs. in Lakh)Primary&- Upp.Pry.-32518

Funds Released (Rs .in Lakh) Primary&- &- Upp..Pry 31668

Salient Features of AWP & B 2010-11

Number of students & InstitutionsType Institutions No of

children's likely to avail MDM

Primary 84016 8693541

Upper Primary 38822 4799110

Number of working days for 2010-11

233 days

Salient Features of AWP & B 2010-11

Item Primary Upper Primary

Requirement of Food grains (In MT)

202491 167479

Requirement for cost of Food grains (Rs. in lakh)

11441 9463

Requirement of Cooking Cost (Rs. in lakh) (Central share ) @revised rates

40903 33719

Requirement of Transport Assistance (Rs. in lakh)

1520 1257

Honorarium for cook cum helper(Rs. in lakh)

11337 6410

Salient Features of AWP & B 2010-11

Primary &Upper PrimaryItem Funds Required

(Rs.in.lakh)MME 1769.45

Kitchen cum stores 9681.83

Kitchen devices 729.75

Requirement Of Kitchen cum store

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Total No. of Schools :89350

Sanctioned : 56552

Through convergance: 3860

Balance Requirement: 27483

Utilization of Central assistance towards Procurement Of Kitchen

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Total No. ofInstitutions : 111502

Sanctioned : 95900

Kitched devicesprocured throughonly convergance :1007

Balance Requirement: 14595

Scheme implementation strategy adopted by state Government

Government has taken a policy decision vide GR dated 18/06/09 and adopted following strategies.

1) Transportation of rice directly to schools level by a agency appointed through open tendering process.

2) In urban area central Kitchen system has been adopted by inviting Expression of Interest form NGOs

3) In Rural Area Supply of other food grain items directly to schools by a agency appointed through open tendering process.

Quality Management And Monitoring

• Flying squads established at District level

• Vigilance squads established at State level

Present Food grains Transportations

Revised Food grains Transportations

FCI

Dist Supply Officer

Tahsilder

Ration shop

School

FCI

Maharashtra State Co.op Marketing Federation

(A State Gov.Undertaking)

School

FCI

Food grains Transportations

Demands of State Government• Ceiling of 50%,35% & 15 % expenditure of MME

should be kept flexible at discretion of State Govt.• MME funds allocated for External Monitoring &

Evaluation should be permitted to use for Internal Monitoring purpose. State Government should be allowed to establish a separate State level MDM monitoring cell. The said cell will be of temporary posts which will be filled by deputation so that it will not create long term liability such as gratuity and pension etc.

• Permission be given to conduct external evaluation in every 5 years for the whole state. It will be conducted in stages of 1/5thdistricts in every year.

Evaluation Report of MDM Scheme in Primary

Schools

School Education & Sports Dept.

Maharashtra State.

Evaluation of MDM Scheme :Major findings

Evaluation of Mid-Day-Meal Scheme of 7722 Primary schools in 30 districts done by Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune

Evaluation covers all major aspects of MDM such as supply of rice and funds adequacy of funds, quality of rice, quality and quantity of food served to the children, community participation and monitoring system.

Impact of MDM on various educational indicators such as enrollment, attendance of children has been examined during evaluation

Evaluation of MDM Scheme : Conclusion

All schools in the sample avail the facility of MDM.

The students who are from rich class do not take MDM in schools. Such children are 14%

80% Schools served meals for more than 200 days

1% Schools served meals less than 115 days.

Problem encountered by the schools

Delay in payment of cooking cost. Difficulty in finding cooks due to low benefit. Headmasters/ Teachers have to spare

average half hour to 50 min. a day for MDM related works.

Funds are inadequate for supplementary items.

Most of schools (77%) receive rice on time.

Problem encountered by the schools

Cause of delay in supply of rice is the unavailability of rice at ration shop.

Variation found in quantity and quality of rice supplied.

The calories content of samples was found between 374 – 384 calories per 100 gm.

Observations indicate that less quantity of rice is cooked in schools.

Infrastructure Arrangements

Majority of schools served food in corridor

In 85% of schools food is cooked either in corridors or in empty classrooms.

In 41% of schools rice storage rooms are well and 44% of schools the rooms are not good enough but rice is stored in ‘Kothi’

In 62% of schools firewood is used for cooking.

Adequate cooking utensils are available in almost of schools.

In 38% of schools Self Help Groups cooked the meals.

Infrastructure Arrangements

Quality of food

Protein content are sufficient.

Nutritional requirements not fulfilled as food contents 180-386 calories.

‘Khichadi, Masala rice and Varan Bhat’ are most common menu observed

85% of teachers test the food before serving to children.

Community Participation

In general 4-39 % of schools observed community participation.

In 51% schools parents supervise and help serving of food to children.

Monitoring of Scheme

54% of VEC/WEC/Local committee members and 52% of parents visited schools at least once in a week

43% of schools visited once in a year by MDM superintendents.

96% schools maintain rice register

Impact of MDM

MDM had positive impact on regular attendance of children post lunch attendance of children, enrollment and decrease in drop out rate of students.

It is also observe that concentration of children increased.

MDM facilitate the abolition of classroom hunger.

Pupils of all social background seem to be quite happy to sit to be others and share the same food.

Impact of MDM

Majority (60-65%) of the cooks were the women and most of them come from underprivileged backgrounds.

Recommendations

A separate administrative set up is essential for effective implementation of MDM.

All the approved post of Block Superintendents should be filled.

Advanced technology should be used for data management.

A central cooking agency should be identified in each block

Recommendations

The rice and funds could be directly transformed to cooking agency.

The funds should be released as per SSA procedure.

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