Future of Mid- Day Meal

This was the good news when government start his new project to provide mid day meal to attract poor child towards education. But recently after Bihar tragedy again government come into the court that How they implements this in different states??

So here i would like to know about your opinion that Should govt. ban mid-day meal project or Not.

Give your comments plz............ 

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एक ही सब्जी में 300 फीसदी से ज्यादा का प्राइस गैप

नई दिल्ली।। सब्जियों की महंगाई के बीच थोक और खुदरा कीमतों में बड़े अंतर की शिकायत तो आती रहती है, लेकिन मंडियों में किसी सब्जी के होलसेल रेट में अंतर भी कम चौंकाने वाला नहीं है। एग्रो प्रड्यूस मार्केंटिंग कमिटियों (एपीएमसी) की ओर से जारी डेली रेट बुलेटिन में एक ही सब्जी की न्यूनतम और अधिकतम कीमतों का अंतर 300 फीसदी से भी ज्यादा है।

जमाखोरी और रीटेल कीमतों की अटकलबाजी को काबू करने के मकसद से खुद दिल्ली सरकार भी मंडियों के रेट प्रकाशित-प्रसारित कर रही है, लेकिन इतने बड़े अंतर के बीच आम ग्राहक या रीटेलर के लिए सही थोक मूल्य का पता लगा पाना बेहद मुश्किल हो रहा है। इस बारे में एपीएमसी की दलील है कि क्वॉलिटी और वरायटी में काफी अंतर होने के चलते कोई औसत रेट निकालना मुश्किल है।

एशिया की सबसे बड़ी फल और सब्जी मंडी आजादपुर में बुधवार को आलू की न्यूनतम थोक कीमत 6.25 रुपए प्रति किलोग्राम थी, जबकि अधिकतम रेट 19 रुपए प्रति किलोग्राम। प्याज की न्यूनतम कीमत 11.50 रुपए जबकि अधिकतम 25 रुपए प्रति किलोग्राम। इसी तरह टमाटर 12 से 39 रुपए, अरबी 10 से 17, बैंगन 16.50 से 29, खीरा 6.25 से 20 , बंदगोभी 10 से 25.50, चौलाई 6 से 12.5, भिंडी 9.50 से 17, करेले की न्यूनतम कीमत 10 और अधिकतम 14.50 रुपए प्रति किलोग्राम थी। लौकी 6 से 12, पालक 13.50 से 20, कद्दू 2 से 4.50, कटहल 8 से 16, तोरी 9 से 15, टिंडा न्यूनतम 14.25 और अधिकतम 25 रुपए प्रति किलोग्राम की दर पर बिक रहे हैं। प्याज, आलू, टमाटर, खीरा, भिंडी सहित कई सब्जियों के न्यूनतम और अधिकतम रेट में ही 250 से 300 फीसदी का अंतर देखा जा सकता है।

CAG reports on midday meal scheme's working

Kitchen sheds are missing in most of the primary schools and the quality and quantity of food supplied to children are not checked by medical officers. Kitchen and utensils are also unhygienic, according to the findings of the CAG on working of midday meal (MDM) scheme in Bihar schools.

Irregularities, corruption and bungling in the scheme had been pointed out by the CAG in its reports submitted before the Bihar assembly every year, starting 2007. According to the report for 2007-08, out of 200 schools test-checked, all had no kitchen shed though substantial money was made available to the districts for the purpose.

In 105 out of 200 schools test-checked, the headmasters concerned said there was shortage of 5 to 15 kg rice in each bag of 50 kg. An audit check of two schools' 17 bags revealed that each bag contained an average of only 32 kg of rice. However, for less receipt of rice, neither the school authorities lodged any complaint nor the MDM authorities took any action to check the practice, the report said.

According to figures culled from the reports of different years, the district superintendents of education supplied less foodgrains than required. Against the requirement of 2,865.77 tonnes of foodgrains in a year, only 997.50 tonnes were supplied by the DSEs concerned to 547 selected schools, which were test- checked.

The MDM directorate did not have any consolidated record to indicate the number of days on which midday meals were supplied in schools during a year. Records in test-checked schools, however, revealed that the average number of days on which cooked meal was served ranged between 92 and 108 days and 94 and 106 days in urban and rural schools, respectively. Out of 200 schools test-checked, no meal was served in nine to 17 schools in a year.

"The MDM programme was to be implemented through local committees and NGOs but, in practice, it was observed that the scheme was implemented by the teachers of the schools concerned, which took an average time of 13-18 out of 30 teaching hours in a week in test-checked schools," the report noted.

According to the CAG, the scrutiny of records of 33 out of 52 test-checked schools (20 selected and 32 additional) in Patna district where supply of cooked meal was entrusted to an NGO, revealed the number of meals received by schools concerned in a year was inflated by 31,220 meals in NGO's copy by addition/ manipulation, which was not verified by the DSE at the time of payment.

CAG regretted the quality of cooked meals was never checked. No monthly inspection of cooked meal was done by any medical officer in the test-checked schools, indicating absence of monitoring of cooked meal provided to students. Deworming medicines were also not supplied to the children as required every six months.

Report for a year pointed out that funds provided for the construction of kitchen sheds were either not used or diverted. It was proposed to construct 35,226 kitchen sheds in all districts, but only 3,599 schools had kitchen sheds.