Govt. of A.P Welcomes the Chairperson and Members of the Project Approval Board Govt. of India

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Govt. of A.P Welcomesthe Chairperson and Members
of the Project Approval Board Govt. of India
MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME
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Demographic Profile
A.P is the fifth largest state in India both in
area and Population.
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Socio-Economic Indicators
a) Enrolment Ratio 109.80(B)
111.65(G) b) Dropout rate
26.76(B) 27.32(G) No. of Primary Schools
per a lakh of population 11088 Per capita
expenditure on a child Rs.6717/-
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Literacy Rate 2001 Census
Literacy Rate in Focus Groups 2001
Infant Mortality Rate and Maternal Mortality
Rate, 2002-03
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Nutritional Status of Children in AP
Prevalence () of under nutrition among 1-5 year
children according to SD Classification
By Gender in the State of Andhra Pradesh
NCHS standards Source
NNMB Technical Report No 24, 2006
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Prevalence () of Anaemia among 1 - 5 years age
and Physiological groups in the State of Andhra
Pradesh
Prevalence () of Bitot Spots (Clinical Vitamin A
deficiency among, 1-5 years age and
physiological groups in the State of Andhra
Pradesh
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Iodine Deficiency Disorders
Prevalence () of signs and symptoms of vitamin
A deficiency among 1-lt5 year children
Source NNMB Survey
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Number of schools
Government, AIE, EGS Centres and Madarsas
Enrolment (Category Gender wise) from Classes
I to V (2006-07)
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Dropouts 2006-07
Classes VI to VIII
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Institutional arrangements for food grains
transportation

• AP Civil Supplies Corporation is appointed as the
  Nodal Agency for lifting allocation of food
  grains to the Districts.
• It has 448 storage points and 40788 Fair Price
  Shops from which the grains are lifted.

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Lifting food grains from FCI to Taluka
level/wholesale point
FCI
A.P State Civil Supplies Corporation Receives
the allocations
District Manager of Civil Supplies dept.
Mandal level Storage Points
Fair Price Shops
Implementing Agencies (Women Self Groups,
mostly)
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Lifting and transportation of food grains from
intermediate level to school.
Fair Price Shops
Implementing Agency
Agency responsible for lifting the food
grains The implementing agencies lift the food
grains from the Fair Price shops
Procedure of releasing Transportation
cost Transport cost is included in the
conversion cost which paid to the implementing
agencies at the mandal level by the Mandal
Educational Officers
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Periodicity of lifting of food grains
The food grains are lifted on monthly
basis. Taking into account the
closing balances of the previous
month rice is lifted as per requirement.
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Institutional arrangements for cooking material
supply and conversion
Mechanism for budget releases for conversion
costs
Government of India

State Government
Directorate of school Education
District Educational Officer
Mandal Educational Officer
Implementing Agencies
Sub Treasury Officer
District Treasury Officer
Directorate of Treasury Accounts
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Procurement of cooking ingredients Ingredients
are procured by Implementing Agencies. Cost of
ingredients is met from conversion cost.
Periodicity and procedure of releasing the
budget Initially Budget is released to the
Mandal Educational Officers on quarterly
basis. Mandal Educational Officers release budget
to the Implementing Agencies every month on
production of vouches. This procedure arrests
delay, vastly. Funds for cooking are released
directly to the Implementing Agencies by the
Mandal Educational Officers and not to school or
Panchyats.
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Assessment of system. To overcome a few
bottlenecks in the flow of funds and to the
facilitate smooth and speedy flow of funds to the
Implementing Agencies, different strategies like
electronic transfer of money are being studied.
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Guidelines on conversion

• To use locally available and seasonal vegetables
  in the preparation of the meals.
• To use standardized measures.
• To use clean vessels.
• To cover the cooked food.
• To use minimum spices as children of quite
  sensitive.
• To use LPG as per as possible (LPG is provided at
  concessional rates under Deepam Programme)
• To maintain utmost hygiene and cleanliness in the
  whole process of cooking.
• The unit costs are standardized based on the
  strength of schools.
• Below 50 - Rs.2.50
• 51-100 - Rs.2.25
• Above 101 - Rs.2.00

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Guidelines on Nutrition facts, dietary
composition, variety, etc
Guidelines on Nutrition facts, dietary
composition are prepared in consultation with NIN
and circulated. The NIN has prepared day wise
menu for a week keeping in view the calorie,
protein and cost factors.
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Implementation arrangements and reviews
Committees to review the Mid Day Meal Programme
are formed at various levels.
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System of inspections and monitoring

• Officers of various levels from Mandal level to
  the State level inspect the Mid-day Meal
  Programme in schools, while they are on tours.
• Mandal level officers make scheduled visits and
  inspects the programme.
• Public representation like the Sarpanch, Mothers
  committee etc also inspect the programme.
• There are also monitoring committees at various
  levels i.e. from school to State level.
• Various cells from the Mandal level to State
  level monitor the Programme.
• 45400 visits/ inspections were conducted.

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• Inspections and monitoring are done along with
  school visits and the findings discussed in the
  monitoring cells.
• Deficiencies and corrective measures
• A few deficiencies have been identified like
• Delay in payments to the implementing
  agencies, the drawing and disbursing powers are
  delegated to the Mandal Educational Officers
  instead of Mandal Revenue Officers
• Quality of food grains
• Lack of infrastructural facilities

Role Panchayats The implementation and
supervision of the MDM Programme in the
Panchayat is done by the Gram Panchayat. For
day-to-day implementation of the Scheme and to
ensure effective functioning a sub committee is
constituted
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School level management The implementing
agencies procure rice and all the ingredients,
cook and serve the food. The Headmaster certifies
the attendance of students everyday and also
supervises the quality of food supplied to
children. The Headmaster also ensures Nutrition,
hygiene and cleanliness is a made a part of
teaching learning process and encourages students
to inculcate sound habits.
The Teachers are not involved in the
implementation of the Programme, directly. They
shall also make nutrition, hygiene and
cleanliness a part of teaching learning process
and encourage students to inculcate sound habits.
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Independent checks and audit The Mandal
Educational Officers and Deputy Educational
Officers, District Educational Officers, Regional
Joint Directors of School Education State level
Officers visit school at random to check the
implementation of the programme besides officials
of other related departments like Civil Supplies,
Revenue, Medical Health. Conduct of Social
Audit is being contemplated. Independent
evaluation and States readiness The State is
open to the independent Evaluation and it is
planning to conduct External Evaluation through
Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Rural Development
APARD and National Institute of Nutrition NIN
of Hyderabad.
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ISSUES
Delay in payments to cooking agencies Electronic
transfer of money to the cooking agencies is
under consideration. The Centre for Good
Governance is working out the modalities. To
increase the cooking cost from Rs. 1.50 per day
per child to Rs.3.00 per day per child Prices
of Dal, Spices, oil etc, which are being procured
by the implementing agencies, have gone up. Cost
per child needs revision as per the price
index. There is heavy demand for enhancement of
conversion cost from the implementing
agencies. The Government of India has also
increased the protein calories intake from 8 12
to 12 calories. Implementing agencies have to
incur extra expenditure on Dal, the chief source
of for proteins.
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To increase rice quota from 100 Gms to 125 gms
per day per child As per the Guidelines of
Government of India 2006, the calorific value per
child has to be increased from 300 calories to
450 calories. To satisfy this norm the quantum
of rice has to be increased from 100 Grams per
child to 125 Grams. For some children Mid Day
Meals is the only meal of the day.
Extension of MDM to classes VI To Xth Dropout
rate and transitional loss can be reduced if the
programme is extended to secondary schools also.
The following table shows clearly the heavy
transitional loss at two levels, at the end of
Primary and at the end of Upper Primary stages.
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• Besides, the contemplated goal of
  universalisation of secondary education becomes
  proximity.

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To increase the Unit Cost of construction of
Kitchen Sheds cum Store Rooms from Rs.60000/- to
Rs.100000/-

• Present unit cost of Rs.60,000/-
• Cement and iron rates have go up.
• SSA allots Rs.3 lakhs for construction of a
  classroom.
• Kitchen cum store room, is a complex structure,
  including plumbing was allotted only Rs.60,
  000/-
• Unit cost of the kitchen shed cum storeroom needs
  a revision.

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Online Reporting
The Department of School Education has a website
of its own. It will be put to use for monitoring
Mid Day Meal Scheme. However, to have web pages
as per work structure, an amount of Rs.5.00 lakhs
is required. It enables spontaneous and effective
monitoring.
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UNIQUE FEATURES

• Participation of women Self Help Groups
• SHGs, like the DWCRA, DWCUA, Mahila Mandal
  Samakhyas and charitable trusts are participating
  in the implementation, Voluntarily. Only
  conversion costs are allocated to them.
• b) Supply of two eggs a week to each child
• To enhance the Nutritional status, two boiled
  eggs are provided in a week per child.Care is
  taken to provide fresh boiled eggs. Boiled eggs
  are distinctly colored, so that eggs specified
  for supply on a particular day cant be
  distributed on the other day of the week.

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Kitchen Gardens
Kitchen gardens are encouraged where ever
feasible. The produce is used in the preparation
of the meal
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Installation of Centralized Kitchens on Public
Private Partnership mode Involvement of NGOs
The Naandi Foundation, an NGO has taken up the
Mid Day Meal Programme in Hyderabad District and
Vishakhapatnam city. It has established a huge
central Kitchen at Hyderabad from where cooked
food is supplied to 1,01,394 children in 891
schools in the twin cities of Hyderabad
Secunderabad. Similarly 35,734 children in 111
schools are covered by the centralized kitchen
established in Vishakhapatnam city by the same
NGO
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The Bhagavathula Charitable Trust an NGO of
proven track record is providing Mid Day Meal to
75,000 children in 70 schools in Vishakhapatnam
District. ISKCON (International Society for
Krishna Consciousness) is meeting the Midday Meal
requirement of 8500 children in 65 schools in
Tirupathi Rural and Urban areas. A
representation from the same agency to start
centralized kitchen and implement Mid Day Meal in
Rajamundry Municipal area is under active
consideration.
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Philanthropists are also partaking in the MDM
Programme. Mr. Narayana Reddy, is providing Mid
Day Meal to 3895 children in 27 schools with
variety of recipes in the menu in Tadipattri
Urban Rural areas in Ananthapur district, a
district which is facing perennial drought
situation.
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THANK YOU