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| Mid-day Meal fails to achieve objectives | | Schools lack cooking space, mismanagement mars scheme | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 15: Introduced with the objective of increasing the enrollment in schools across the states, much glorified mid-day meals schemes has failed to achieve the very objective.
Much to the dismay of children, parents and even the teachers, the scheme which was implemented in 2005 across Jammu and Kashmir during the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed led government has evoked dissatisfaction among these.
According to the scheme, up to primary level, Rs 2.80 per meals is incurred on per student according to the scheme. Likewise Rs. 2.60 is incurred on per student per day. According to the scheme, pulses, leafy vegetables, oil/ fat, food grains, salt, condiments and spices are to be prepared and served with food grains. 100 grams of rice to primary and 150 grams to upper primary are being prepared per student. The cost incurred goes as pulses 0.80 paisa, vegetable 0.70 paisa, oil, 35 paisa and also salt and condiments.
Apart from children at large ironically teachers too criticize the department for what they allege its mismanagement in implementing the scheme in the educational institutions of the valley. Not only this even the per capital utilization of funds per child has also shows decline from Rs 221.69 to Rs 203.73 at zonal level. The funds utilization per child has now shrank further to Rs 159.60 at school level during past few years.
According to the survey carried out by the J&K government, only 3 per cent of the educational institutions have appropriate cooking place in the form of separate kitchen, while 9 per cent of the schools have constructed temporary sheds.
Survey report says that a sizeable quantum comprising 22 per cent sample schools were doing job in the class room which is neither advisable from the educational point of view nor from the hygiene and safety aspects of the enrolled children while as 3 percent sample schools supplied the ,meals in dry form,.
"The cooked Mid Day meals (CMDM) scheme is without any direction on score of cooking arrangements both on the manpower and infrastructural front. 14 per cent of the sample schools have carried this job through the services of the teachers which is straight away mis utilization of time frame stipulated for class room teaching", says the government document.
The internal survey has also raised questions on the working of the Educational Department, saying that officers at the controlling and monitoring position rely on paper information and are not physically supervising over the scheme implementation. "The supervision and monitoring system of the scheme has been observed very weak due to over busy schedule of Chief Education Officers (CEO) and Zonal Education Officers (ZEO)", says the latest survey carried out by the government.
"Contrary to the views expressed by the Chief Education Officers, 18 per cent of the sample schools were not satisfied with the lifting arrangements of the food grains, 12 per cent of the schools have registered complaints about the quality of food grains with the evaluation team and 10 per cent schools have reported that the supplies were not in time", the latest Economic survey says.
"In such a state of situation separate monitoring wing at the zonal level needs to be put in place to ensure intensive supervision of the scheme, especially with regard to the quality control", says the survey.
According to the sources, the Minister for Education Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed had showed his displeasure with the failure in achieving the goals set by the state government in education sector particularly related to the mid-day meal scheme which has proved a failure in the state, despite crores spent by the Central Government. |
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