MID DAY MEAL SCHEME Annual Work Plan Budget

MID DAY MEAL SCHEME Annual Work Plan & Budget Dept. of School Education and Literacy Government of Jharkhand 25. 05. 18

Demographic Profile of Jharkhand No. of districts – 24 No. of blocks – 262 No. of division – 05

Best practices followed by State 1. Additional honorarium to cook cum helpers - Rs. 500 additional honorarium to cook cum helpers is given from State own resources. 2. Guru Gosthi – Every last Saturday of the month guru goshti is held at the block level in which all the head teachers of all schools of the block are present. Meeting is chaired by the Block Education Extension Officer (BEEO). In the meeting every school is reviewed and report is taken. 3. Additional Nutrition - One boiled egg/ apple or banana is served to the children thrice a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and Buiscuit/ Murhi Chana served on Tuesday and Thursday. 4. Flavoured milk – 200 ml fortified falvoured milk per child per day is provided for 10, 000 children in 35 schools of Latehar District by National Dairy Development Board’s (NDDB).

Best practices followed by State 5. Inspection - 100% inspection of schools have been done by the officials of the State on quarterly basis. 6. Training of cook cum helpers – 100% cook cum helpers and Sanyojika of Saraswati Vahini Sanchalan Samiti (SVSS) have been trained by master trainers in 2017 -18. 7. Door step delivery – Jharkhand has adopted door step delivery of food grains from FCI to school. For this purpose Rs. 200 per MT is borne by State own resources in addition to Rs. 750 per MT of central share. 8. LPG – Fund released for installation of 100% schools with LPG based cooking from State own resources.

Management Structures at State level Secretary Dept. of School Education and Literacy Director, Primary Education Director, JSMDMA District Superintendent of Education Saraswati Vahini Sanchalan Samiti (Sub committee of SMC) Headmaster Block Education Extension officer

Food grains and Fund Flow mechanism Food grains FCI District wise allotment of food grains a. b. c. d. e. f. g. Cooking cost Honorarium to cooks MME TC COF KD KS SFC Block Godowns Dep. of school Edu. & Lit. : DPE DSE Schools JSMDMA Saraswati Vahini SMC Chairman Cooking by Saraswati Vahini MDM to children

Action taken note on the issues raised in PAB 1. Less Coverage of Children against enrolment (i) With the introduction of additional nutrition to children i. e. children are provided with eggs/ fruits for 3 days in a week, coverage of children has increased. As per AWP&B 2017 -18 the coverage of children is 60% at primary and 56% at upper primary. Now as per AWP&B 2018 -19 the coverage of children is 67% at primary and 63% at upper primary, hence overall increase of 7%. (ii) Decrease in attendance is being examined and a programme named “PRAYAS” at every school is running to enhance retention by SSA. (iii) “VIDYALAYA CHALEIN CHALAYEN ABHIYAN” is also being run every year in the month of April-May. (iv) To check fake enrolment all students are being linked with aadhaar. 2. Less coverage of No. of working days – Schools were closed down due to early summer vacation resulting in less coverage of working days. 3. Kitchen cum store – Data for the same will be furnished to Go. I seperately after AWP&B. Data reconciliation is in progress at district level. 4. Less health check up under RBSKs – Around 82% of children are covered under RBSKs programme during FY 2017 -18. Efforts are being made for 100% coverage of students under RBSKs and for timely distribution of IFA and de-worming tablets.

Action taken note on the issues raised in PAB 5. Cook cum helpers- Out of 80288 cook cum helpers working under MDM, 79215 cook cum helpers have bank accounts. Number of cook-cum-helpers having bank account – 79215 No. of cases where payment is done through DBT – 40825 No. of cases where payment is done via NEFT - 38403 6. Payment to FCI – Directions have been issued to all District officials for clearing of outstanding dues of FCI. Letter no. 526 dated 11. 2017 & 527 dated 11. 2017 of this department has been written to Go. I for demand revalidation of funds under cost of food grains for clearing off the dues of FCI. 7. Automated monitoring system – Efforts are being taken to scale up the data entry through AMS. Directions have been given to the districts for ensuring 100% data entry through AMS. 8. Mismatch in the entered data on MIS-web portal – Effective mechanism will be put in place to ensure accuracy and quality of data entry in MDM-MIS portal.

PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE SCORE CARD- ALL COMPONENTS 3. 4 AMS 9. 9 DW Toilet 9. 4 Institution 10. 0 12. 0 10. 0 8. 0 Children 6. 6 Working Days 9. 7 Foodgrain Utilz 9. 9 6. 0 4. 0 8. 8 Monthly data entry Payment to FCI 4. 6 2. 0 0. 0 9. 8 Cooking Cost 9. 9 Annual data entry 10. 0 Inspection 8. 9 Hon to CCH 9. 5 8. 2 School Health MME 7. 7 TA Kitchen Devices 8. 5 7. 4 Kitchen shed

Proposed Demand for FY 2018 -19 at a glance. Physical S. No. 1 1. 1 2 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 3 3. 1 3. 2 3. 3 4 4. 1 5 5. 1 5. 2 5. 3 Components Institutions Primary + U. Primary Children Primary Upper Primary NCLP Working Days Primary Upper Primary NCLP Cook cum Helper* Primary & Upper Primary Non recurring Kitchen Shed Kitchen Device (New) Kitchen Device (Replacement) PAB Approval 2017 -18 Proposal for 2018 -19 40025 39740 2063679 925474 7309 2398065 1014810 4694 254 311 254 312 85066 81577 NIL 11243 NIL NIL

Proposed Demand for FY 2018 -19 at a glance. Financial Primary + Upper Primary + NCLP S. No. Component For Central Share For State Share Total 1 2 3 4 5 Recurring Assistance 1 Cost of Food grain 2 Cooking Cost 3 4 Honorarium to Cook-cum-Helper Transportation Assistance 5 MME Total (A) - 2993. 86 0 2993. 86 24723. 19 16453. 06 41176. 25 4894. 26 748. 47 7341. 39 0 12235. 65 748. 47 600. 48 0 600. 48 33960. 26 23794. 45 57754. 71

Issues and suggestions FCI refused to issue food grains without payment of pending bills of cost of food grains. Honorarium of cooks Increase in honorarium of cook-cumhelpers MME Increase in funds for MME for effective management of MDM.

Strategy for FY 2018 -19 1. Aprons to cook cum helpers. 2. Eating plates in 100% schools of Jharkhand. 3. Facilitation of schools with RO (reverse Osmosis) water facility under convergence. 4. Financial audit of MDM by Chartered accountant. 5. Social audit in 600 school on an pilot. 6. 7. Kitchen garden in 5346 schools with convergence. 200 ml falovoured fortified milk in 8 districts of jharkhand i. e. Ranchi, Khunti, Lohardaga, Gumla, Simdega, Hazaribagh, Ramgarh and Latehar.

Plan under MME (amt. in lakh. ) Sl. No. Proposal Amount 1. Proposal for Recurring expenditure for salary of Office staffs 345. 270 2. Proposal for Recurring expenditure for Management Monitoring and Evaluation of MDM. 858. 996 3. Proposal for Non-Recurring expenditure for Management Monitoring and Evaluation of MDM 435. 300 Total 1639. 666