MDM: proudly known as Mid Day Meal
History:
History:
- In 1925, a Mid Day Meal Programme was introduced for disadvantaged children in Madras Municipal Corporation.
- By the mid 1980s three States viz. Gujarat, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the UT of Pondicherry had universalized a cooked Mid Day Meal Programme with their own resources for children studying at the primary stage
- 1990-91 the number of States implementing the mid day meal programme with their own resources on a universal or a large scale had increased to twelve state
- Enhancing enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August 1995, initially in 2408 blocks in the country
- Central Assistance under the scheme consisted of free supply of food grains @ 100 grams per child per school day, and subsidy for transportation of food grains up to a maximum of Rs 50 per quintal.
- Initially its only for the students of classes I -V
- In September 2004 the scheme was revised to provide cooked mid day meal with 300 calories and 8-12 grams of protein to all children studying in classes I – V in Government and aided schools and EGS/ AIE centres
- some rules:
- One cook- cum-helper for schools up to 25 students.
- Two cooks-cum-helpers for schools with 26 to 100 students.
- One additional cook-cum-helper for every addition of upto 100 students
- In October 2007, the scheme has been further revised to cover children in upper primary (classes VI to VIII) initially in 3479 Educationally Backwards Blocks (EBBs)
- More than 25.25 lakhs cook-cum-helper are engaged by the State/UTs during 2016-17 for preparation and serving of Mid Day Meal to Children in Elementary Classes
- 25.38 LAKH COOK-CUM-HELPERS MAINLY FROM SC/ST/OBC COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN ENGAGED TO PROVIDE MDM TO SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING 2016-17
- MDM project comes under: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
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