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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Flaws in mid-day meal scheme

Flaws in mid-day meal scheme

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published Published on Apr 2, 2016   modified Modified on Apr 2, 2016
-The Times of India

Raipur: CAG has pointed out several deficiencies in the implementation of mid-day meal scheme in Chhattisgarh. The mid-day meal scheme was launched on August 15, 1995, by Centre to boost universalisation of primary education by increasing enrolment, retention and attendance, and simultaneously improving nutritional status of students in primary classes. The CAG report on General, Social and Economic (non-PSUs) for the year ended March 2015, which was tabled in state Assembly on Thursday, underlined ineffective monitoring, non-utilisation of funds and lack of infrastructural facilities as deficiencies under the scheme.

Pointing out lack of monitoring, the report said, there were shortfalls in the meetings of state-level steering-cum-monitoring committee (SLSMC) aimed to oversee the implementation of the scheme, as only five meetings were held against the minimum target of 10 during 2010-11 to 2014-15.

Thus, the shortfall in number of meetings gave less opportunity to SLSMC to review the status of the scheme, rendering the monitoring ineffective, it said.

The report also suggested that the scheme failed to retain children in schools.

"The enrolment of children in the mid-day meal covered schools registered a consistent decline by 22% over the years from 42.23 lakh children in 2010-11 to 35.43 lakh children in 2014-15," it said. In contrast, the enrolment of children in private schools witnessed an increase of 34% from 8.25 lakh to 11.03 lakh during the same period, indicating that mid-day meal in itself was not a sufficient condition to retain children in schools, and that there was a growing section looking for quality in education, it said.

The enrolment in test-checked districts also did not improve and consistently declined (1 to 26%, except Bastar) during the period. "The declining trend in enrolment indicates that the scheme failed to retain children in schools," it said.

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The Times of India, 2 April, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/Flaws-in-mid-day-meal-scheme/articleshow/51656114.cms


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