35% Kids Not Getting Mid-day Meals; UP Worst, Chhattisgarh Best, Goa Awaits Nod from Own Dept
4 years, 3 months ago

35% Kids Not Getting Mid-day Meals; UP Worst, Chhattisgarh Best, Goa Awaits Nod from Own Dept

News 18  

During the lockdown, various governments issued orders on the delivery of the mid-day meals to school students. “35% children are not receiving mid-day meals,” said the report authored by Ankit Vyas with a team of other researchers and contributors: Binod Sinha, Pratiush Prakash, Santosh Patra and Prakash Gardia among others. In addition to being a site of learning, a government school also provides entitlements such as mid-day meals, textbooks and other learning materials.” Various governments have released orders regarding the continuation of MDM even during the lockdown and there have been efforts to continue delivery of education through various means, such as cable TV and the internet. According to this status report, “92% children have been deprived of their mid-day meals in Uttar Pradesh while Chhattisgarh fares the best where over 90% children have received mid-day meals.” The probable cause for this could be the mode of MDM delivery as per the researchers of the status report. With regards to MDM, it has recommended that the government must ensure safe, home delivery of cooked meals/dry rations under the mid-day meal scheme; ensure access is unconditional In this study, a total of 1,158 parents and 488 government school teachers across five states, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh participated.

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

3.70 lakh schoolkids in Punjab missed out on free mid-day meals last year
2 months, 3 weeks 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, …

Midday meal cooks in Andhra Pradesh get tips from chefs on dishing out tasty, nutritious food
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Midday meal cooks in Andhra Pradesh get tips from chefs on dishing out tasty, nutritious food

The Hindu  

Ensuring that midday meals served to children at government schools under the Jagananna Gorumudda scheme are not just nutritious but also tasty has become a focus area of the Education Department. The department has prepared instructional videos wherein the chefs explain how to dish out tasty and nutritious food items and also explain their health benefits. These videos have been …

Plan to start mid-day-meal for high school students of Sundargarh district
10 months, 3 weeks 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. …

Telangana CM's breakfast scheme will be launched for schoolchildren on Dasara
1 year, 3 months ago

Telangana CM's breakfast scheme will be launched for schoolchildren on Dasara

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The state government will launch a new scheme on October 24, commemorating Dasara, to provide free breakfast to government school students like the midday meals. Named ‘Chief Minister’s breakfast scheme’, it will be extended to school children in Classes 1 to 10 across government and local body schools on all working days. The director of school education has been …

Centre seeks reports from Bihar, MP over ‘artificial, low’ midday meal coverage
1 year, 6 months ago

Centre seeks reports from Bihar, MP over ‘artificial, low’ midday meal coverage

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has asked Bihar and Madhya Pradesh governments to take corrective measures over the low midday meal coverage in the two states last year and submit action taken reports by September, officials familiar with the matter said on Friday. The PAB advised the state to take up special measures to increase the coverage and sought an action taken report …

No Fundamental Right To Poison Children, Can't Allow Outsourcing Of Midday Meal Kitchens: Bombay HC Orders Surprise Inspections At Malegaon Schools
1 year, 10 months ago

No Fundamental Right To Poison Children, Can't Allow Outsourcing Of Midday Meal Kitchens: Bombay HC Orders Surprise Inspections At Malegaon Schools

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the civic body of Malegaon city in Maharashtra to conduct surprise inspections at 27 government aided schools and ascertain if they had operational kitchens and storage rooms to provide midday meals for its students. A division bench of Justices GS Patel and Neela Gokhale was hearing the schools’ petitions seeking directions to the …

Mid-day meal in U.P: ‘Sponsors of meals must not provide food but only cash’
2 years ago

Mid-day meal in U.P: ‘Sponsors of meals must not provide food but only cash’

Hindustan Times  

Members of the public will no longer be able to feed students of government primary schools under the mid-day meal scheme. For representation only Awadhesh Kumar Tiwari, special secretary, UP government said, “If any member of the community wishes to give cash for ‘Tithi Bhojan’, it will be deposited in the account of mid-day meal fund/school management committee. The person …

Mid-day meal scheme: what’s really being served?
2 years, 2 months ago

Mid-day meal scheme: what’s really being served?

The Hindu  

The mid-day meal scheme is considered to be one of the government’s most successful initiatives. While this has led to increased school attendance, data and social audits reveal that the food being served is sometimes unhygienic, cold, contaminated, or nutritionally inadequate. In this episode, The Hindu speaks with experts on the benefits of the mid-day meals scheme, what they’ve seen …

Mid-day meals: Kids get broken rice, watery dal
2 years, 8 months ago

Mid-day meals: Kids get broken rice, watery dal

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government pays Rs 4.97 per primary class student for mid-day meals and Rs 7.45 for every student in the upper primary classes and high school. Manna Trust said that it prepares the food at a centralised kitchen in the city and serves white rice and five different types of curries, one for each day of the week, …

What’s in a Rename? Mid-Day Meal Plan Now Christened as PM Poshan with More Beneficiaries
3 years, 2 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 …

'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. …

Midday meals leave a long-lasting impact: study
3 years, 5 months ago

Midday meals leave a long-lasting impact: study

The Hindu  

Girls who had access to the free lunches provided at government schools, had children with a higher height-to-age ratio than those who did not, says a new study on the inter-generational benefits of India’s midday meal scheme published in Nature Communications this week. Court mandate The midday meal scheme was launched in 1995 to provide children in government schools with …

11.8 cr students to benefit from financial help by government under Mid-Day Meal scheme
3 years, 6 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 …

Mid-day meal should be reactivated with re-opening of schools: UN
3 years, 10 months ago

Mid-day meal should be reactivated with re-opening of schools: UN

India Today  

Amid Covid-19, when several states have started reopening their schools, the UN-WFP India has said that the mid-day meal scheme should also need to be reactivated with the provision of a hot cooked meal. The UN's World Food Programme country director Bishow Parajuli said India offers a shining example through its existing food safety nets and the collaborative response it …

Karnataka High Court Directs Govt. To Compensate Students Who Were Denied Benefits Of Mid-Day Meal Scheme
4 years, 1 month ago

Karnataka High Court Directs Govt. To Compensate Students Who Were Denied Benefits Of Mid-Day Meal Scheme

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to inform in how much time and in what manner it would compensate each and every student who is entitled to the benefit of Mid-day meal scheme but it was denied to them from May 31, due to Covid-19 pandemic. The direction followed after the state government admitted that after 31st …

New Education Policy 2020: Breakfast for School Children Besides Mid-day Meals
4 years, 4 months ago

New Education Policy 2020: Breakfast for School Children Besides Mid-day Meals

News 18  

The mid-day meals provided to students in government or aided schools should be supplemented by breakfast, the new National Education Policy has proposed. "All school children shall undergo regular health check-ups especially for 100 pc immunization in schools and health cards will be issued to monitor the same," the policy said. "Health check-ups and growth monitoring that are available in …

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