1. Click to edit Master subtitle style Presentation on the major findings of Monitoring Institutes on implementation of the MDM-RTE programme in the State ( Name of the State: MANIPUR ) (i) Name of the Monitoring Institution Monitoring Institution, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, MANIPUR UNIVERSITY (ii) Period of the report 01-04-2012 to 30-09-2012 (iii) District’s name, Month of visit to the Districts, No of Schools visited in each district District’s nameMonth of visit to the Districts No of Schools visited in each district (Primary and Upper Primary Schools) Primary Schools Upper Primary Schools Not suppl y MDM Senapati7th June, 2012 to 11th July, 2012 22180 Tamenglong8th August, 2012 to 29th September, 2012 25114

2. Key Items (Monitored) Major Achievements In Both Senapati and Tamenglong District Major Actionable points/ Critical Points 1. Regularity in serving meals. .In Senapati district, 55% of the sample schools were serving meals.  In Tamenglong district, 90% of the sample schools were regularly serving hot cooked meals.  Due to untimely released of foodgrains, MDM are unable to serve regularly in Senapati district.  In Tamenglong district, 10% of the sample schools are not supplied MDM due to nature of the intervention. Regularity in delivering foodgrains.  In both the districts, 100% of the sample schools did not receive foodgrains in time.  In both districts, there is problem of delayed delivering of foodgrains to schools. 3. Regularity in delivering cooking cost to school level  In Senapati district, mode of payment of cooking cost is done through banking channels.  In both districts, none of the sample schools received MDM cooking cost in time.  In Tamenglong district, mode of payment of cooking costs is done through cash and banking channels.  In both districts, there is problem of delay in delivering cooking cost to school level.

3. 4. Social Equity  In both districts, there is no gender, caste or community discrimination.  In both districts, eating and seating arrangement of MDM are mostly floor arrangement. 5. Variety of Menu  In Senapati, 10% of the sample schools displayed weekly menu.  In both districts, Head Master decides the menu in most of the sample schools and also served different types of menu.  In Tamenglong district, sample schools are not displaying weekly menu at a place noticeable to community. 6. Quality and Quantity of meal.  In both districts, good qualities of foodgrains were received.  In both districts, there is inadequate quantity of food grains. 7. Supplementary  In both districts, there is no health card maintained and also no health check-up in sample schools.  In both districts, none of the sample schools had given micro nutrients (Iron, folic-acid vitamin – A dosage) and de-warming medicine periodically to the students.

4. 8. Status of Cooks.  In both districts, cooks are belonging to Scheduled Tribes (ST) as the district is predominantly ST district.  In Senapati district, 35% of the sample schools had the facility of cooks and helpers.  In Tamenglong district, 66.66% of the sample schools have the facility of both cooks and helpers engaged in the schools as per GOI norms of MDM.  Remuneration paid to cooks and cooks-cum-helper have delayed.  In Tamenglong district, there is 1 (one) male helper in Tengkonjang Hr.Sec./S. 9. Infrastructure  In both districts, most of the sample schools have no kitchen sheds.  MDM were prepared either in the house of cooks or Head Master’s house or inside the classrooms whichever is convenient to the schools. 10. Storing of food grains and other ingredients of MDM  In Tamenglong, most of the schools stored foodgrains inside the school office room.  In both districts, kitchen shed-cum- store rooms were required in those sample schools which have no store rooms.

5. 11. Availability of Water for cooking and drinking purposes  In Senapati district, Stream water used for cooking and drinking purposes in most of sample schools.  In Tamenglong district,most of the sample schools used pipe water for cooking and drinking purposes.  Need to provide safe drinking water 12. Availability of kitchen devices  In both districts, most of the sample schools have inadequate kitchen devices.  In Tamenglong district, 2 (two) sample schools have no utensils available from SSA even at present – Raengkhung No.1 P/S and Tamenglong HQ P/S 13. Kinds of Fuel used  In both districts, firewood used as fuel for cooking purposes.  In both districts, using of fire-wood happened to be one of the sources of air pollution having the problem of health hazards. 14. Safety and Hygiene  In Senapati district, 45% of sample schools are having the safety and hygienic environment of the children.  In Tamenglong district, teachers are encouraged the children to wash hands before and after eating meals and also children take meals in an orderly manner.  In Tamenglong district, 100% of the sample schools have poor environmental conditions as there is no fencing around the school campus for the students studying in these schools and also lack of proper use of dust-bins in these schools.

6. 15.Community Participation and Awareness (CPA) in MDM  In both districts, most of the sample schools have CPA about the benefits of MDM.  In Tamenglong district, 38.88% have good general awareness of MDM.  In both districts, i.e. 9 sample schools in Senapati district and 4 sample schools in Tamenglong district, SMC members are not looking after the MDM programme implementation due to lack of awareness of community. 16. Inspection and Supervision.  In Senapati district, 70% of the sample schools have been inspected occasionally by Officers.  In Tamenglong district, 47.22% of the sample schools were inspected by Officers twice in a year.  Frequent visits to sample schools by BRP/CRP during the time of serving MDM. 17. Impact  In both districts, the impact of MDM are improvement of the enrolment of the students and nutritional status of the children.  Democratic decentralization of schools management should be made more meaningful and effective for MDM 18. Others  MDM should be implemented in the state of Manipur with a proper vision and mission in relation to RTE Act 2009 and RTE rules 2011 so that the problem of hunger, deprivation may be properly rooted from the state of Manipur for children in the age group 6-14 years.  Capacity building, work culture and professional ethics should be inculcated in a big way.

7. OVERALL PERFORMANCE SCORE CARD MDM SENAPATI DISTRICT

8. OVERALL PERFORMANCE SCORE CARD MDM TAMENGLONG DISTRICT

9. CHARTS GIVING DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT MDM SENAPATI DISTRICT

10. CHARTS GIVING DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT MDM TAMENGLONG DISTRICT

11. Name Dr. L. Leiren Singh Official Designation and Nodal Officer HOD Education Deptt and Nodal Officer Name & Address of the Monitoring Institute M.I., SSA, M.U. Canchipur -795003 Office phone No 0385-2435102 Mobile No 09436039714 Email ID : Presentation by: