Govt likely to revise midday meals’ daily cooking cost
2 years, 7 months ago

Govt likely to revise midday meals’ daily cooking cost

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The daily cost of cooking midday meals in schools across India is likely to be raised by the central government once a panel reviewing the matter submits its report, people familiar with the development said. The midday meal scheme covers at least 118 million students enroled in classes 1-8 across 1.1 million schools. In the recently held meeting of the programme approval board of midday meals, some states including Andhra Pradesh demanded a raise in the cooking cost, a second official said, declining to be named. “It is very important to revise the cooking cost of the midday meal at a time when the price of almost everything has increased,” said Apurva Handa, principal of a government school in West Bengal. “We can’t continue with the 2020 cooking cost in 2022.” The government should first map the vulnerability of children before taking any decision regarding the revision of cooking cost, said Sonal Kapoor, founder chief executive of Protsahan India Foundation, a Delhi-based child rights non-profit working specifically for girls.

India Cooking Revision Cost Meal Midday Meal Midday Meals Midday Cooking Cost  students  schools  govt  meal  classes  states  cost  revision  meals  million  midday  daily  likely  cooking  revise

History of this topic

T’gana: Panel cites low payment for ‘poor’ mid-day meal
3 weeks, 3 days ago

T’gana: Panel cites low payment for ‘poor’ mid-day meal

Hindustan Times  

Hyderabad The Telangana government, which has substantially enhanced the mess charges being paid to students of residential schools and welfare hostels by 40% since November 1 resulting in improved diet for them, has started taking measures to improve the quality of food being provided to students under the mid-day meal scheme in the state-run schools across the state, officials familiar …

Eat, pay, respect
1 month ago

Eat, pay, respect

Times of India  

Midday meals really help India. The ‘honorarium’ for cooks-cum-helpers in India’s midday meal programme was fixed at Rs 1,000 per month in 2009. The crazy thing is that these 15 years have also provided prodigious evidence of how much the midday meal scheme delivers on both the health and education fronts. If they weren’t, no govt would write the bad …

3.70 lakh schoolkids in Punjab missed out on free mid-day meals last year
3 months, 1 week ago

3.70 lakh schoolkids in Punjab missed out on free mid-day meals last year

Hindustan Times  

More than 3.70 lakh children enrolled in government schools of Punjab missed out on nutritious mid-day meals during the academic year 2023-23. Of the 19.69 lakh children enrolled in pre-primary and elementary classes, 15.98 lakh students, or approximately 81%, were served mid-day meals on an average daily in government schools across the state under the centrally- At the primary level, …

Students happy with summer vacation midday meal programme in Karnataka, but don’t like the long trek for lunch
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Students happy with summer vacation midday meal programme in Karnataka, but don’t like the long trek for lunch

The Hindu  

The Karnataka government has extended midday meals for the summer holidays too in the 223 drought-hit taluks as a relief measure. The summer midday meal programme started on Friday and will go on till May 28 for Class 1 to 8 in government and aided schools. Speaking to The Hindu, Umesh G. Gangavadi, State president of School Development and Monitoring …

Summer vacation midday meals to be implemented from April 11 to May 28
9 months, 1 week ago

Summer vacation midday meals to be implemented from April 11 to May 28

The Hindu  

Due to drought in Karnataka, the State government has ordered to extend the midday meal programme to schoolchildren in 223 drought-prone taluks during the summer vacation for 41 days from April 11 to May 28 for government and aided school children of classes 1 to 8. A total of ₹88.4 crore for the summer vacation midday meals programme, of which …

Govt School Students Suffer Amid Fluctuating Egg Prices
10 months ago

Govt School Students Suffer Amid Fluctuating Egg Prices

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The fluctuating prices of eggs are posing a fresh challenge to government schools in the midday meal programme. In districts like Karimnagar, Nirmal, Mancherial, and Nizamabad, midday meal workers are grappling with insufficient funds and are being forced to cut back on some items. "Our budget is Rs 10 per child, but the current prices demand at least Rs …

Midday meal programme to be extended for children in drought-hit taluks during summer vacation
11 months, 1 week ago

Midday meal programme to be extended for children in drought-hit taluks during summer vacation

The Hindu  

Due to the drought situation in Karnataka, the State government has decided to extend the midday meal programme to schoolchildren in 223 drought-hit taluks during the summer vacation. The Director of ‘PM Poshan’ of the Department of School Education has instructed all Block Education Officers and Deputy Directors of Public Instruction to send the information regarding the identification of the …

Plan to start mid-day-meal for high school students of Sundargarh district
11 months, 1 week ago

Plan to start mid-day-meal for high school students of Sundargarh district

New Indian Express  

ROURKELA: If everything goes as expected, about 45,000 students of classes IX and X in government schools across the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district may start getting mid-day-meal in a week with the district administration making the requisite arrangements. Accordingly, about 45,000 students of 384 government high schools including Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas and aided high schools would be covered under MDM scheme. …

Punjab FM tells dept to form panel to study mid-day meal cooks’ salary
1 year ago

Punjab FM tells dept to form panel to study mid-day meal cooks’ salary

Hindustan Times  

Punjab Finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday directed the school education department to form a committee comprising officials of the education and finance departments, and representatives of mid-day meal cooks’ unions to study the various aspects related to the salary of mid-day meal cooks and present a report so that a decision to increase their salaries could be taken …

Midday Meal Workers Begging for Food to Cook for Children
1 year, 6 months ago

Midday Meal Workers Begging for Food to Cook for Children

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Despite the honorarium of midday meal scheme workers being increased from ₹1,000 per month to ₹3,000 per month in 2022, workers allege that they are still being paid only ₹1,000. It was on March 15, 2022, that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao had announced in the Assembly that the honorarium of 54,201 workers engaged in the midday meal scheme …

Gujarat Education Department Raised Cost Paid For Midday Meal Ingredients
1 year, 8 months ago

Gujarat Education Department Raised Cost Paid For Midday Meal Ingredients

News 18  

The Gujarat Education Department has marginally increased the cost of midday meal ingredients. According to The Times of India report, the state education department has raised the cost paid for the midday meal of Class 1 to Class 5 by 48 paise per meal. Meanwhile, sources in the state education department informed that the central government had earlier issued orders …

Midday meals: Chicken, seasonal fruits to be served at Bengal schools till April
2 years ago

Midday meals: Chicken, seasonal fruits to be served at Bengal schools till April

Hindustan Times  

Chicken, eggs, and seasonal fruits will be served till April in midday meals at West Bengal schools along with the usual rice, dal, and vegetables, the state’s school education department has said in an order. Over 11.6 million students enrolled at state-run schools get midday meals across the state. ) “Additional nutrition will include egg, chicken, and seasonal fruits which …

Midday meal cooking cost hiked after finance ministry nod
2 years, 3 months ago

Midday meal cooking cost hiked after finance ministry nod

Hindustan Times  

The central government has increased the cost of cooking school midday meals by 9.6% from October 1 that will be valid for financial year 2022-23, the education ministry has told the state governments and union territories, which will offer some relief to school authorities struggling to meet the costs at a time of high inflation. Under the PM POSHAN scheme, …

Tamil Nadu’s new breakfast scheme in schools
2 years, 3 months ago

Tamil Nadu’s new breakfast scheme in schools

The Hindu  

The story so far: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Thursday, at the Madurai Corporation Primary School Aathimoolam II in Simmakal, Madurai, launched the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme for students of Class I to V in government schools. Besides, as a consequence of the collaborative implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the nutritious meal programme, around …

5,941 students identified for CM’s breakfast scheme in Chennai
2 years, 3 months ago

5,941 students identified for CM’s breakfast scheme in Chennai

The Hindu  

September 15, 2022 10:10 pm | Updated September 17, 2022 07:42 am IST - CHENNAI Starting Friday, 5,941 students from 37 schools of the Greater Chennai Corporation and government schools in Chennai will receive free breakfast as part of the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme in the first phase. At least 25,769 students of 117 primary schools run by the Corporation …

Mid-day Meal Scheme to include millets
2 years, 11 months ago

Mid-day Meal Scheme to include millets

India Today  

Mid-day meal will include millets soon, said the Minister of State for Education, Annpurna Devi in a written reply to Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Central Government requested State Governments/Union Territory Administrations under PM POSHAN Scheme to include millet in the midday meal in order to enhance nutrition among children. Plan to introduce millets in mid-day meal NITI Aayog conducted …

What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Christened as PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries
3 years, 3 months ago

What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Christened as PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries

News 18  

The Mid-Day Meal Scheme has been renamed as ‘PM Poshan Shakti’ as the Centre pushes for child nutrition in the country, with the addition of around 24 lakh students from the pre-primary government and government-aided schools. The mid-day meal plan at present provides hot cooked food to students from Class 1 to 8 in all 11.20 lakh government and government-aided …

Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students
3 years, 3 months ago

Centre extends mid-day meal scheme to 24 lakh pre-primary students

The Hindu  

The Centre has rebranded the 26-year old national mid-day meal scheme to give a hot cooked meal to 11.8 crore government school students from Class 1 to 8, with the Cabinet approving a proposal to rename it as the PM POSHAN scheme on September 29. Although this year’s budget for mid-day meals remains unchanged, an additional ₹266 crore is expected …

'No Arbitrariness': Kerala High Court Upholds Lakshadweep Admin Decision To Close Dairy Farms, Modify Mid Day Meals
3 years, 3 months ago

'No Arbitrariness': Kerala High Court Upholds Lakshadweep Admin Decision To Close Dairy Farms, Modify Mid Day Meals

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court while disposing of a Public Interest Litigation assailing the reforms introduced by the new Lakshadweep Administration, reiterated that a writ court can only consider a policy matter if there was any arbitrariness, illegality or unfairness on the part of the authority while exercising the power conferred under law.Dismissing the PIL, a Division Bench of Chief Justice. …

11.8 cr students to benefit from financial help by government under Mid-Day Meal scheme
3 years, 7 months ago

11.8 cr students to benefit from financial help by government under Mid-Day Meal scheme

India Today  

To help safeguard the nutritional levels of children, the central government has decided to provide financial help to 11.8 crore students under the Mid-Day Meal scheme through Direct Benefit Transfer of the cooking cost for the meals. This is in addition to the Government of India’s announcement of distribution of free-of-cost food grains at Rs 5/kg per person per month …

UP govt to give mid-day meal allowance and food grains to primary students in Covid-19 lockdown
3 years, 7 months ago

UP govt to give mid-day meal allowance and food grains to primary students in Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

The Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Department has decided to give food grains and mid-day meal allowance for primary school students during the Covid-19 lockdown period. How much mid-day meal allowance will students get? Mid-day meal allowance A mid-day meal allowance was supposed to be issued from September 2020 to February 2021 but wasn’t possible because of the panchayat elections and …

Delhi govt to provide dry ration to students under mid-day meal schemes for 6 months
4 years ago

Delhi govt to provide dry ration to students under mid-day meal schemes for 6 months

India Today  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has recently announced that the Delhi government will be providing students of its schools' dry rations under the mid-day meal scheme for six months to ensure their proper nutrition. This decision has been taken by the government of Delhi as the school in the union territory have been closed since March 2020 in view of …

West Bengal govt fixes midday meal menu
5 years, 4 months ago

West Bengal govt fixes midday meal menu

India TV News  

West Bengal government has sent a circular to all district administrations for a fixed menu for midday meals in state-run schools, an official said on Saturday. The move for the fixed menu comes days after a school in Hooghly district was found offering only boiled rice and salt to the students. It said rice, dal, potato and vegetable curry would …

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme

India TV News  

The HRD Ministry on Thursday ruled out introduction of breakfast in the mid-day meal scheme offered by the government. The information was shared by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha on whether a plan is under consideration for introducing breakfasts in mid-day meals. As per the provisions of National Food Security Act, …

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

HRD Ministry rules out introduction of breakfast in mid-day meals scheme

India Today  

The HRD Ministry on Thursday ruled out introduction of breakfast in the mid-day meal scheme offered by the government. As per the provisions of National Food Security Act, 2013, children studying in classes 1 to 8 or within the age group of 6-14 years are entitled to one mid day meal free of charge, every day except on school holidays, …

Kids who eat midday meal have better reading, math test scores: Researchers
5 years, 10 months ago

Kids who eat midday meal have better reading, math test scores: Researchers

India Today  

According to researchers of Indian-origin, the primary school children who ate midday meals over an extended period were shown to have significantly better learning outcomes. Effects of India's midday meal scheme: The researchers studied the effects of India's midday meal scheme - the world's largest free school lunch programme - feeding over 120 million children every day. Better reading skills: …

Discover Related