I. The Mid Day Meal Scheme aims to improve nutrition, encourage school attendance, and provide support to children during summer vacations. It provides a cooked meal to children in classes 1-5 with nutritional values of 450 calories and 12g protein or 700 calories and 20g protein for upper primary. II. The meal includes rice/chapati, pulses, and vegetables. Schools eligible are government, aided, local body, EGS, AIE centers, madrasas, NCLP schools. Food grains are provided free at 100g/150g per child. III. Implementation involves provision of kitchen devices, construction of kitchen-cum-stores, engagement of cooks, community monitoring of regularity,

2. The objective of Mid Day Meal Scheme
I. Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I-V
II. Encouraging poor children, belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend
school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities
III. Providing nutritional support to children of primary stage in drought
affected areas during summer vacation
(To achieve the above objectives a cooked mid day meal with
nutritional content will be provided to all children
studying in classes I-V)
Which are the institutions/schools eligible for Mid Day
MealGovernment, Govt. Aided, Local Body, EGS and AIE Centres,
Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
and National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Schools run by Ministry
of Labour.

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Some key information
Free supply of food grains @ 100 grams per child per school day at
Primary and @ 150 grams per child per school day at Upper Primary.
For children in classes I – V, a meal with a nutritional value of 450
calories and 12 grams of protein
For children in upper primary classes, a meal containing of 700
calories and 20 grams of protein
In addition to rice/chapattis, the meal includes pulses, vegetables
depending upon local availability

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Some key information
Sl. Items
Quantity per day/Child
Primary Upper Primary
1 Food-grains 100 gr 150 gr
2 Pulses 20 gr 30 gr
3 Vegetables (leafy also) 50 gr 75 gr
4 Oil & fat 5 gr 7.5 gr
5 Salt & condiments As per need As per need

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Revised Cooking cost per child per school day
Stage Total
Cost
Central-State Sharing
Non-NER States
(75:25)
NER-State (90:10)
Central State Central State
Primary Rs.3.76 Rs.2.82 Rs.0.94 Rs.3.38 Rs.0.38
Upper
Primary
Rs. 5.64 Rs. 4.23 Rs. 1.41 Rs. 5.08 Rs. 0.56
Some key information

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How many days Mid Day Meal is served?
Mid Day Meal is served on all working days
in the school
There is provision to provide mid day meal to
children in summer vacations in drought
affected areas

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Provision for Kitchen devices per school
 There is provision to provide 100% Central
assistance @ Rs. 5000 per school for procurement
of kitchen devices
Cooking devices (Stove, Chulha, etc)
Containers for storage of food grains and
other ingredients
Utensils for cooking and serving

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Some key information
 Rs.100 per quintal for 11 special category States viz. Arunachal
Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura,
Sikkim, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and Rs.75 per quintal
for all other States and Uts
 Cost of cooking and cost for engaging a cook/assistant
@Rs.1000/month
 The norm for engagement of cook-cum-helper is one cook-cum-helper
in a school having upto 25 students, two cooks-cum-helpers for schools
having 26 to 100 students, and one additional cook-cum-helper for every
addition of upto 100 students
 The scheme has provision for construction of kitchen cum store in every
school where land is available. The norm for construction of kitchen cum
store is- 20 sq. mt. plinth area for construction of Kitchen-cum- store in
schools having upto 100 children
 Central Assistance towards construction of kitchen shed-cum-Stores @
Rs. 60,000 per unit

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Provision of assistance for cooking cost at the following rates :
 States in North-Eastern Region: @ Rs.1.80per child per school day provided
the State Govt. contributes a minimum of 20 paise.
 For other States & UTs : @ Rs.1.50 per child per school day provided the
State Govt./UT administration contributes a minimum of 50- paise.
Some key information

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Role of community ……….
The community has an important role in monitoring and implementation of
the scheme. The community can monitor the scheme on a daily roster
basis. Representatives of Gram Panchayats/Gram Sabhas (or such as
Village Council) equivalent, Parent Teacher Associations, etc. can monitor
on regular/daily basis in terms of:
Regularity of the MDM
Cleanliness in cooking and serving
Timeliness for procuring good quality ingredients, fuel, etc.
Variety of menu
Social and gender equity

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Display in school
The school has to display the menu (on the notice board or on school wall,
etc.). Along with this, schools are also expected to display the following;
Quantity of food grains received, date of receipt
Quantity of food grains used
Other ingredients purchased and used
Number of children who received MDM
Daily Menu
Roster of Community Members

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