Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Annual Work plan & Budget 2014-15 Mid-Day Meal Scheme Presentation by Department of Education, Government of Gujarat

Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat MDM Scheme in Gujarat Gujarat introduced MDM scheme in 1984 and is pioneer state in providing hot cooked meals. Total 33790 Schools are Covered by the MDM Total 43.05 Lakhs children daily take benefit of MDM 89,660 Cook cum Helpers working for the scheme Total budget for 2013-14 was Rs. 704.55 crores Central Share Rs. 444.55 crores State provision Rs. 260.00 crores Budget proposed for 2014-15 is Rs. 820.16 Crores Central Share Rs. 519.34 Crores State Provision Rs. 300.82 Crores Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Administrative Structure-MDM Gujarat Education Department Commissioner State District Collector/ Municipal Commissioner Joint Commissioner Asst.Commi.(Impl/Admin) Dy.Collector/Dy.Muni.Commisioner Dy. D.P.E.O. Other Staff Other Staff Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Contractual staff for monitoring and supervision Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Status of Establishment Class Sanctioned Filled Vacant Class-1 33 09 24 Other than Class-1 1293 586 707 Contractual staff for monitoring and supervision State Government has Approved recruitment of following contractual staff wide GR no. MDM/2011/614/R, Dated: 24/12/2013 and GR no. MDM/2011/614/Bha-1/R, Dated: 26/12/2013 District Project Coordinators MDM Supervisors Data Entry Operators 32 310 253 The recruitment is in progress. This will enhance supervision and monitoring and also the MIS for the scheme Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Coverage Comparison previous years Item 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 (Proposed) No. of Schools / Centers covered 33,396 33,374 33,790 No. of Centers 30,522 (NGO centers 2850) 30,377 (NGO centers 3093) 30,599 (NGO centers 3191) No. of children 43,54,754 43,04,511 43,71,790 Primary 29,76,010 28,23,068 Upper Primary 13,78,744 14,81,443 15,48,722 No. of Days Meal provided 234 240 No. of Cook cum Helpers 89,374 89,660 91,131 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Coverage Comparison

Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Achievements of 2013-14 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Coverage of Students NGOs Coverage Requesting for relaxation of norms for NGO’s permission in rural areas

NGO Participation in MDM Scheme Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat NGO Participation in MDM Scheme Name of NGO Area Covered Centers Covered Number of Beneficiaries Akshayapatra Foundation Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Vadodara Surat 1497 2,09,242 Nayak Foundation Navsari 750 1,23,634 Stri Shakti Valsad 944 1,31,937 Total 3191 4,64,813 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Gas Connection to MDM Centers Although the connections are released to all centres, the use is limited due to higher cost of LPG. The additional requirement of fund to ensure full use of the LPG is approx. Rs. 12.36 Crores Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Government of Gujarat Initiative (2013-14) Particular Achievement Food grain (wheat) for tribal girls students of Std. 1 to 8 completing 70 % attendance – 60 kg per annum Beneficiaries :5.34 lakhs Cost: 45.08 crore Sukhadi Total Cost : 18.70 crore Extra cooking oil Primary (5gm) and Upper primary (2.5) students Total Cost : 33.64 crore Tithi Bhojan ( Community Participation) 28.32 Lakhs Meals Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

An initiative: Sukhadi Condensed sweet popular in Gujarat. Sukhdi is beining served once in a week. In the year 2014-15, Sukhadi is proposed for 1day to 2 days in a week. Recipe is approved by the experts It is prepared using wheat, jaggery and oil State government has contributed Rs. 20.00 crores for oil and jaggery for year 2014-15. Nutritional characteristics of each serving of sukhdi: Std.1-5(gms) Std. 6-8(gms) Wheat 20 25 Jaggery 15 20 Oil 10 12 Total calories 214 267 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Proposals for 2014-15 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Proposed Annual Work Plan 2014-15 of Gujarat Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Proposed Annual Work Plan 2014-15 of Gujarat Component Total (Rs. In Lakhs) Central Share State Total Cost of Food grain 6113.61 0.00 Cooking Cost 32837.05 10966.31 43803.36 Honorarium to Cook-cum Helper 10252.24 3417.41 13669.65 Transportation Assistance 926.49 Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (MME) 1804.66 51934.05 14383.72 66317.77 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Issues to be Considered Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Issues to be Considered Linking transport subsidy with fuel price hike The figure of transport subsidy should be in proportion to fuel prices i.e. as fuel price increase, there should be proportionate increase in transport subsidy. The actual difference in the transport subsidy borne by the Government of Gujarat due to lower rate of the Government of India is Rs. 602.08 Lacs from April-13 to December-13. Linking Cooking Cost to food price Inflation Index As per the present guideline NP-NSPE-2006, the cooking cost is increased by 7.5% every year. There should be proportionate increase in cooking cost in proportion to food inflation index. Fuel cost presently: Primary: Rs.0.61 (Cooking Cost 3.34) Upper Primary: Rs. 0.90 (5.00) Proposed fuel cost: Primary: Rs. 0.74 (3.62) Upper Primary: Rs. 1.00 (5.49) Additional approx. fund requirement: Rs. 1236.34 Lakhs Central component: Rs. 927.26 Lakhs, State: 309.08 Lakhs

Revision of the norm for Kitchen Devices As per the MDM guideline an amount of Rs.5000 is admissible for kitchen devices. But it should be increased to Rs.8000 taking into increase in raw material price. Supplying MDM in rural area through NGO The guideline permits for the supply of MDM in urban area through NGO. The policy may be revised to include the rural area in light of increased Road transport facility and faster vehicles. Supplement like Sukhdi for increasing consumption of grain: It is observed that the children can not consume the full quantity of food grain 100 gm (primary) and 150 gm (upper primary) consumed at a time hence an additional supplement like Sukhadi is suggested.

Additional requirement of pulse Improving norm for protein The protein content from the present daily allowable quantities (in gms) of grain and pulse for primary and upper primary are as under: Deletion of the word poor It is suggested that the word “poor” should be removed from the guideline (Chapter- 1, para 1.7) and Para 2.2.1.II of draft guideline to avoid perception of people - “the scheme for poor children” Grain Protein Pulse Total Protein Protein requir’t 50% suppl’n Gap Additional requirement of pulse Primary 100 8 20 5 13 34 17 4 16 Upper Primary 150 12 30 7.5 19.5 46 23 3.5 14

Additional Proposed State Components for year 2014-15 Commissionerate of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat Additional Proposed State Components for year 2014-15 Particular Provision (Rs. Crores ) Food grains to Scheduled Tribe Girls 60.00 Oil and Jaggery for Sukhadi 20.00 Cooking devices and others 1.50 Total 81.50 Commissioner of Mid Day Meal, Gujarat

Convergence of SSA & MDM Provision of Mid day meals to STP beneficiaries Provided MDM to 36465 children studying in tent STPs, STP centers and seasonal hostels in 2013-14 Plan to provide MDM to 35195 children in 2014-15

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