NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF MID DAY MEAL IN SCHOOLS (MDM) ANNUAL WORK PLAN & BUDGET DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA HYDERABAD. 1

Action taken report on the Commitments  Serving of MDM by NGOs through centralized Kitchens in Rural Areas: o Akshaya Patra Foundation is serving MDM in Medak District including in rural schools of Sanga Reddy, Kondapur, Sadashivapet and Munipally mandals. o The issue was taken up with the NGOs and they have agreed to set up Cluster Kitchens to reduce the distance. o An analysis is being done on the availability of space for construction of Kitchen cum Stores in the schools being covered by Akshaya Patra Foundation and construction will be taken up wherever land is available.  Decline in coverage of children in Hyderabad and Karimanagar districts against enrolment. o Awareness sessions were organized to the SMC members throughout the State especially focussing the issue in these two districts. 3

Cont…. o Coverage of children in Karimanagar district has improved. In Hyderabad more efforts need to be put in.  Slow pace of construction of Kitchen cum Stores. o The construction of Kitchen cum Stores was slow due to inadequacy of unit cost as per State SS Rates. o The State Steering cum Monitoring Committee in its meeting held on has agreed to meet the additional cost from the labour component of MGNREGS funds. o Action is being taken to complete the construction of kitchen cum stores during  Mismatch in data on Annual Work Plan & Budget and MDM-MIS and improving on poorly performing indicators. o This is due to not updating of MDM data on MIS regularly and in time by the schools and mandals. o The issue was persued and it has improved except on construction of Kitchen cum Stores, usage of LPG by cooking agencies and MME expenditure. o Action is being taken to improve the performance on these indicators. 4

Action on Findings of Monitoring Institute 5 Sl. No. RecommendationAction Taken 1.Monitoring cells should be established in all Districts A dedicated phone connection is taken in all Districts. Complaints are being received, registered and monitored 2.Menu should be displayed on notice boards of schools Action is taken to display of the menu and entitlements under MDM on the school notice boards 3.Kitchen utensils should be replaced Instructions are issued to districts to replace Kitchen utensils as funds are already sanctioned. 4.The regular awareness generation programme for teachers, community members and cooking agencies The item was covered in teacher trainings under SSA during Awareness programmes are organized for SMCs and Cooking Agencies.

Cont… 6 Sl. No. RecommendationAction Taken 5.Kitchen cum stores should be constructed in all schools Action is being taken to complete the construction of Kitchen cum Stores during State should have a mechanism to reduce the delay in payments to Cooking Agencies Green Channel System of releasing funds is being implemented in the State from onwards. Action is being taken to reduce the sporadic delay. 7.All the cooking agencies be instructed to wear headgear, apron and gloves The agencies are trained in these aspects. A detailed package on SOPs was developed and shared with cooking agencies.

Progress report  Coverage :  Primary – %  Upper Primary %  74% of Primary Schools and 71% of Upper Primary Schools were inspected during the quarter - October to December, 2014  Health Checkups was carried out for 65.04% of students during the quarter October to December,  Coverage of children is 44.96% and 46.93% at primary and upper primary levels under Aided School category, which needs to be improved.  Utilization of central assistance towards cost of food grains, cooking cost and honorarium to cook cum helpers need to be improved. 7

FINANCIAL PROGRESS Sl. No. StageCentral Amount (In Lakhs) State Amount (In Lakhs) Total Amount (In Lakhs) Remarks 1. Approvals for a Primary School b Upper Primary Schools Total: Expenditure till to date Funds under Transit

State Initiatives  The State Government made provision of MDM to students of Class IX and X also.  The State Government has provisioned and additional cooking cost of Rs.1/- per day per child to provide two eggs a week to each child in MDM thus adding protein content of the meal  From , the State Government is supplying Super Fine variety of Rice for MDM scheme additionally bearing an amount of Rs crores per annum approximately.  The feed back from schools is that the supply of super fine variety of rice is encouraging children to take meal and requests are pouring in to increase quantity of rice per child now being provided. 9

REQUIREMENT OF FOOD GRAINS FOR Sl. No No. Of Schools ClassesEnrolmentNo. of days x quantity Total requireme nt in MTs I to V x 100 gms VI to VIII x 150 gms Total

11 BUDGET PROPOSALS Sl. No. StageItemCentral Amount (In Lakhs) State Amount (In Lakhs) Total Amount (In Lakhs) Remarks 1 Primary School, NCLP & Madarsa Cooking cost Transport charges Cost of food grains Total

12 BUDGET PROPOSALS Sl. No. StageItemCentral Amount (In Lakhs) State Amount (In Lakhs) Total Amount (In Lakhs) Remarks 1 Upper Primary Schools Cooking cost Transport charges Cost of food grains Hon. To CCH MME Total

13 BUDGET ABSTRACT Sl. No. Stage Central Amount (In Lakhs) State Amount (In Lakhs) Total Amount (In Lakhs) Remarks 1 Primary School Upper Primary Schools Total Proposals to be submitted to GoI for approval Total

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