mid day meal is one of the succesfull scheme implemented in india it gets world recognition and also help to reduce classroom hunger for primary and upper primary children

1. MONITORING & EVALUATION
OF
MID DAY MEAL SCHEME
PRESENTED BY:-
RAVITA YADAV
VIDDYANSH SRIVASTAVA
IIPS MUMBAI

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction and Background
• Objectives
• Programme intervention and coverage
• Implementation structure
• Components
• Logical Framework
• Monitoring mechanism
• ToR of evaluation
• Evaluation of impact
• SWOT Analysis
• Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
• The Government of India has initiated several large scale supplementary
programme : to improve the nutritional status of the population.
• Started in the 1960s by K . Kamraj in Tamil Nadu and later expanded by M.G
Ramachandran in 1982
• It provides lunch free of cost to all school going children in all working days.
• World’s largest feeding programme reaching up to 12 crore children’s.
• In 1925, a mid day meal programme was introduced for disadvantaged children
in Madras Municipal Corporation.

4. • In 1995, Government of India implemented it as the National Programme of
Nutritional Support to Primary Education.
• NP-NSPE was launched as centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August 1995,
initially in 2408 blocks of the country.
• Extended in 2002 to cover not only children in classes 1- V of Government,
Government aided and local body schools, but also children studying in EGS and
AIE centers.
• The scheme consisted of free supply of food grains, 100 grams per child per
school day .
• Many states provided only “dry rations” until 2001.

5. OBJECTIVES
• protecting children from classroom hunger,
• increasing school enrolment and attendance,
• improving socialization among children belonging to all castes,
• addressing the issue of malnutrition among children and,
• social empowerment of women by creating employment.
• Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I-VIII in Government,
Local Body and Government aided schools, EGS ans AIE.

6. • On November 28,2001 the Supreme Court of India passed
an order stating:
“We direct the State Governments/Union Territories to
implement the Mid –Day Meal Scheme by providing every
child in every Government and Government assisted Primary
School with a prepared mid-day meal.”

7. Programme Intervention & Coverage
To achieve the above objectives, a cooked Mid Day Meal with minimum 300 calories
and 8-12 grams of Protein content, are provided to all children studying in classes I-
V in:
• Government Local Bodies
• Government Aided schools
• EGS & AIE centers

9. COMPONENTS
• The major component of this programme is food supplement.
The raw food material supplied by international agencies
includes corn soya meal (CSM), soya, wheat soya blend, SFB
& salad oil.
• The raw ingredients are cooked into “Upma” or “Khichri” or
some other formes. They are also incorporated into ready to eat
foods along with flavouring agents & condiments. Even milk
powder in some places forms part of the supplies.
• The meal provides roughly 450-500 kcal & 20-30 gm protein
per child per day, which is expected to meet one-third of the
energy & half of the proteins RDIs.

10. Centre and state sharing

11. LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
• INPUT : Budget , Human Resource, proper supply , grains and other food
material(quality and transportation).
• PROCESS : Providing food to students , water sanitation and hygiene.
• OUTPUT: Increased school enrollment and attendance(Gross and Net
Enrollment rate and school attendance).
> Improved Socialization among children of different caste and
religion.
• OUTCOME: Decline in stunting , wasting , underweight and malnutrition
among children ,
> Decline in school dropout rates (for male and female seperately).
> Reduced sociocultural inequality and discrimination.
• improvement in nutritional status of children and improvement in the
enrollment of children as well as school attendance in schools.
• IMPACT: Better educational status and improved nutritional health of
children

13. Key indicators for monitoring
• Number and percentage of children of primary and upper primary school
(stunted, wasted and underweight)
• Number and percentage of children enrolled in school (gross enrolment
rate, net enrolment rate)
• Number and percentage of children dropout from school (dropout rate
for both girls and boys)

14. Monitoring Mechanism
• The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human
Resource Development has prescribed a comprehensive and elaborate
mechanism for monitoring and supervision of the Mid Day Meal
Scheme.
• Arrangements for local level monitoring,
i. regularity and wholesomeness of the mid day meal served to children,
ii. Cleanliness in cooking and serving of the mid day meal,
iii. Timeliness in procurement of good quality ingredients , fuels, etc.
iv. Implementation of varied menu,
v. Social and gender equity. This is required to be done on a daily basis.

15. • Display of Information under Right to Information Act –
Transparency and accountablity among all schools regarding
the mid day meal scheme.
• Quality of food grains received , date of receipt.
• Quantity of food grains utilized
• Number of children given mid day meal.
• Daily Menu
• Roster of Community Members involved in the programme.

16. ToR of Evaluation
• To assess the extent of coverage of the MDM and also assess the extent to
which the MDM has succeeded in achieving its objectives
• To examine the adequacy, quality and safety of the MDM delivery system
through school based as well as centralized kitchens
• To study the system put in place for allocation and delivery of food grains
from FCI to the School level
• measures for ensuring quality of food grains, payment mechanisms, system
in place for ensuring full utilization of food grains and funds
• To assess the current nutritional mix, interstate variations in menu items
• To assess the effect of the MDM on teaching activities in the school

17. ToR of Evaluation
• To examine the pattern of funds flow
• To assess the extent to which community participation is achieved
• To assess the availability and adequacy of infrastructure facilities
including manpower for implementation
• To understand the constraints faced in the implementation of the
Scheme
• Whether there is need to continue the scheme in the existing form
or changes required in the norms (both programmatic and financial)
to facilitate achieving the goals.

18. Evaluation of impact
• Impact can be check by better nutritional health of primary and
upper primary children (decline in stunting, wasting and
underweight)
• Increased in school enrolment and attendance and decline in
school dropout rate (gross enrolment rate, net enrolment rate,
school attendance rate)
• Officers of the state Government/UTs are required to inspect
schools and centers where the programme is being implemented

20. SWOT ANALYSIS : STRENGHT
• One square meal gets available to poor children
where scheme is implemented with honesty
• Improved nutritional status among school going
children
• Higher enrollment in government schools
registered
• A meaningful use of buffer stock of grains getting
ensured
• Better implementation of right to education

21. SWOT ANALSIS : WEAKNESS
• Extra workload on the teachers
• Quality of meal provided
• Reduction in time-on-teaching
• leakages in proper implementation of
scheme
• Lack of mechanism of quality control on
teaching

22. SWOT ANALYSIS : OPPOURTUNITIES
• Enhancement of social and gender
equity in schools
• Reduction in child labour
• Government school can get
oppurtunity to improve their quality
• School-community links

23. SWOT ANALYSIS : THREATS
• Disenchantment of teachers from
professional work
• Pilferage and corruption at school
and community levels
• Compromise with hygiene and fire
safety norms

24. CONCLUSION
• The sustainability of the scheme depends on the political will,
community participation and continuous monitoring of the program.
• The MDMS is a big success and also adds to the overall development
of the country.
• This will also help to increase the literacy levels of the country and
develop it.
• The MDMS has now attained world recognition which is great.
• Main focus of MDMS is, ” No child in India shall be deprived of
Education because of hunger”.

25. REFERENCES
• http://vikaspedia.in/education/policies-and-schemes/mid-day-
meal-scheme
• http://rdmodernresearch.org/wp-
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• http://www.merinews.com/article/mid-day-meal-scheme-
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• http://www.academia.edu/31541687/Food_Security_at_the_E
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