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Mid-Day Meal Society

The Mid-Day Meal (MDM) programme is being implemented in the state since January 2005. At present, 16753754 enrolled children of primary schools and 4271215 enrolled children of upper primary schools are covered under MDM Scheme in 71385 government and government aided primary schools and AIE centres, madarsas and 20824 government and government aided upper primary schools and AIE centres, madarsas. The State has implemented the MDM programme in all the government and government aided primary schools, upper primary schools, AIE centres along with government aided sanskrit schools, madarsa and maqtabs covering the children of 6-14 years age group.

The MDM Scheme is guided by the principle that all children have Right To Life, Food, Education and Development. These fundamental human rights of the children are enshrined in the UN Convention on Rights of Child (CRC), the Indian Constitution and also in pronouncements of the Supreme Court.

The State is committed to provide food and education to all children. This is the basic philosophy behind providing Mid-Day Meal to all children in primary and upper primary schools in the state, where 42% of the population live below the poverty line.

At present, Mid-Day Meal Programme is being implemented in all the 38 districts of Bihar. The state government has established a Mid-Day Meal Cell in the secretariat for monitoring and supervision of the programme. The State government has also formed a society named “Bihar Rajya Madhyanha Bhojan Yojana Samiti” to implement and supervise MDM Scheme in the state.

The Department of Human Resource Development of the state government is the Nodal Department for the Mid-Day Meal Scheme at the state level. A State Level Steering cum Monitoring Committee monitors the programme. The District Magistrate is the Nodal Officer of the scheme at the district level. The Mid-Day Meal Programme is monitored at district and block levels by Steering cum Monitoring Committees.

In year 2006-07, a state level “MDM Cell” was constituted in the leadership of Director Primary Education in Bihar. Considering the immensity of the programme in the year 2007-08, the state government created a separate MDM Directorate under “Department of Human Resource Development” of the state under a separate director with a State Programme Coordinator, four Assistant Programme Coordinators to assist him with a team two junior Monitoring Officers, four Assistants, one Account Officer, two Accountants, three Peons and three Computer Operators. A Society named “Bihar Rajya Madhyanha Bhojan Yojana Samiti” has been formed and registered under the Society Registration Act, 1860 to implement MDM Scheme in the state. At district level, a MDM Cell has been constituted under the leadership of SDEO/REO who is assisted by one District Coordinator, one Accountant-cum-Computer Operator and two Resource Persons. At block level, MDM Cell is headed by BEEO who is assisted by one Resource Person.

At school level, Mata Samiti/Mahila Samakhya/Self Help Group is assisting in preparing Mid-Day Meal and its distribution under the guidance of Vidyalaya Shiksha Samiti (VSS). It is an important step for ensuring community participation in the programme. In a few blocks of a few districts, some NGOs have been allotted this work who prepare the meal in centralized kitchen and serve the students.

Functions:

The society has been continuously working on proper implementation of MDM. For this purpose, strategies are being made with features like:

Capacity Building of the entire Members of MDM Cell from state to block;
Increase community participation;
Improve quality of the meal;
Increase transparency;
Improve public satisfaction;
Establish convergence between different departments;
Promote innovative approaches;
Involvement of PRIs for sustainability of the programme;
Private Contractors have been assigned the duty of lifting food grain from SFC and distribute the same to schools;
Strengthen monitoring, assessment and evaluation through increasing man power;

To improve the implementation of the scheme, many important decisions have been taken by the society:

Private contractors will take off rice from SFC godowns and make the delivery to schools directly;
One full time Officer (Sub Divisional Education Officer/Regional Education Officer) has been made in charge of MDM at district level. Two resource persons at district level and one resource person at block level has been appointed on contract basis for regular monitoring and support. In addition, one District Coordinator and one Accountant cum Computer Operator have been appointed on contract basis at district level;
Many others steps as convergence with other departments, NGOs help, external evaluation, sample audit etc. have been taken for the improvement in the scheme. Society is also taking help of ‘Shade India Society’;

Monitoring Process:

The State of Bihar has introduced Online Monitoring System of the MDM. It is a Bi-directional and Short Message Service (SMS) used for alphanumeric messages upto 160 bytes. It facilitates delivery of notifications and alerts, delivery of direct messages, reliable and low cost communication.

It plays a vital role in the State of Bihar to collect information from school level to block, block to district and from district to state. It is a unique technology used for collection and compilation of information. At present, it is used to collect information about number of enrollments, amount of meal served, number of schools opened and expenditure. These information help us to know the current status of mid day meal implementation.

Contact Details:

Secretary,
Bihar Rajya Madhyan Bhojan Yojana Samiti,
Education Department , Govt. of Bihar,
Milestone nearby (under Premises of Bihar text Book Corporation Limited),
Budh Marg, Patna– 800001.
Phone: (0612)- 2231006, 2231005, 2200123.
Email id: mdmsbihar@gmail.com
Website URL: http://www.mdmsbihar.org

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