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Annual Work Plan & Budget2010 – 2011

State: WEST BENGAL

Cooked Mid-Day-Meal Programme

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Our Location

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From January,2003 the Cooked Mid-Day-Meal Programme was started in West Bengal in 1100 schools of six districts. Thereafter coverage of schools increased gradually and till 2009-10 the Programme has covered 85,05,143 students from class I to Class V of 72,553 Primary Schools and Shishu Shiksha Kendras and 26,56,701 students from Class VI to class VIII of 7,006 Upper Primary schools and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendras of the state.

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As per 2001 census

The population of the state - 82 million.

The population density of the state - 904 per square K.M.

State’s population lives in rural areas-72%.

In urban areas-28%.

Scheduled Caste population in Rural Areas-28.6%

Scheduled Tribe population in Rural Areas-5.8%

Scheduled Caste population in UrbanAreas-19.9%

Scheduled Tribe population in UrbanAreas-1.5 %

Muslim population of the State- 28.06%

The literacy rate in the state in 2001- 69.2%

Sex ratio for the age group 0-6 years in 2001- 963

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The Total number of eligible Primary Schools, EGS/AIE Centres and Enrolment from class I to class V of the state

is as follows:-

Type of InstitutionNo of

InstitutionEnrolment

Schools (I-V) 56887 7784458

EGS/AIE/MADRASA 19537 1792600

Total 76424 9577058

56887

19537

SCHOOLS(I-V) EGS/AIE/MADRASA

7784458

1792600

SCHOOLS(I-V) EGS/AIE/MADRASA

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The total number of eligible Upper Primary Schools, EGS Centres/MSKs and enrolment from class VI to class VIII of

the state is as follows:-

Type of InstitutionNo. of

InstitutionsEnrolment

Schools (VI-VIII) 9383 4286450

EGS/MSK/MADRASA 2167 403165

Total 11547 4689615

9383

2167

SCHOOLS(VI-VIII) EGS/MSK

403165

4286450

Schools(VI-VIII) EGS/MSK

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90247178505143

10761386

9639348 9577058

8392800

9195381

9024717

9671000

0

2000000

4000000

6000000

8000000

10000000

12000000

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Total EnrollmentPAB EnrollmentCoverageEnrollment

Enrollment Coverage (I-V)

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Reason for Less Enrollment Coverage in 2009-10

Causes: Due to price escalation of cooking materials some

schools stopped running of Mid Day Meal Devastating flood & Aila occurred in last year Shortage of space for construction of kitchen cum

store Fund for Kitchen cum Store was insufficient.

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78581

76424

78149

72553

7084370018

64000

66000

68000

70000

72000

74000

76000

78000

80000

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Total Schools

Coverage Schools

School Coverage (I-V)

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Reason for Decrease of Number of Schools

• In West Bengal Class V is in Upper Primary School. Some districts considered Class V- One School and Class VI to onwards – another school. This time, they considered it one school. So the no. of primary schools decreases.

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403264

1591276

2656701

4489638

4352132 4689615

0

500000

1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000

3000000

3500000

4000000

4500000

5000000

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Total Enrollment & PAB Enrollment

CoverageEnrollment

Enrollment Coverage (VI-VIII)

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115471133311190

1400

61167006

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

14000

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Total Schools

Coverage Schools

School Coverage (VI-VIII)

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Coverage Enrollment of Primary Schools

(Rural & Urban Areas)Total no

of Schools

Enrollments

Coverage of

Enrollment Under MDM

Coverage of Schools

Under MDM

% of Enrollme

nt Coverag

e

% of Schools Coverag

e

Rural 69233 8585838 7721715 66761 89.93 96.43

Urban 7191 991220 783428 5792 79.03 80.54

69233

66761

7191

5792

0 10000 20000

30000

40000

50000 60000

70000

Rural

Urban

Coverage schools

Total Schools

8585838

7721715

991220783428

0 2000000 4000000 6000000 800000010000000

Rural

Urban

CoverageEnrollment

Total Enrollment

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Coverage Enrollment of Upper Primary Schools (Rural & Urban)

Total no of

Schools

Enrollments

Coverage of

Enrollment Under

MDM

Coverage of Schools

Under MDM

% of Enrollme

nt Coverag

e

% of Schools Coverag

e

Rural 9298 3566420 2240654 6224 62.82 66.94

Urban 2249 1123195 416047 782 37.04 34.77

92986224

2249782

0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000

Rural

Urban

Coverage schools

Total Schools

3566420

2240654

1123195

416047

0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000

Rural

Urban

CoverageEnrollment

Total Enrollment

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1.Low coverage in Urban Area

Causes: Space problem for construction of Kitchen sheds Some schools are running at hired buildingsSteps Taken Cluster Approach Posts of supervising staff have been created

2.Quality improvement:

Food Technology Engineering Department & Institute of Hotel Management have been engaged to monitor the quality of food.

Master Trainers are being trained by the Institute of Hotel Management to train the SHGs & other staff involved in cooking.

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3. Involvement of SHGs:

SHGs involved in cooking SHGs involved for purchasing cooking materials like vegetables,

oil etc Some SHGs maintaining Kitchen garden in East Medinapur & other

places

4. Publicity

Press briefing done Instructed DMs/SDOs/BDOs to use local cables, cinema slides,

local News Papers for wide publicity.

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Budgetary Provision for Cooking Cost from 2009-10 to 2010-11

YearCooking Cost including Cooks

Honorarium

State Central

2009-10 Rs. 315.00 Cr. Rs.417.66 Cr.

* 2010-11 (Proposed)

Rs. 350.00 Cr. Rs. 800.00 Cr.

* Necessary augmentation of fund will be made in due course

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Kitchen –Cum-StoreConstruction of Kitchen-cum Store (I-VIII)

YearFund Received &

Released(Central)

Kitchen-cum-Store

sanctioned

Completed Unit

In progress Unit

Not Yet Started

2006-07 Rs 78.752 Cr 9792 9792 - -

2007-08 Rs 11.40 Cr 1900 1900 - -

2008-09 Rs 221.74 Cr 36958 - 13442 23516

2009-10 Rs 173.99 Cr 8419 - - 8419

2010-11 (Proposed)

Rs 688.72 Cr30902

(Proposed)- - -

Due to price escalation 23516 Kitchen Sheds could not be started where fund @ 60,000 per unit has been allotted.

Requested to include the plinth area norm

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Procurement of kitchen DevicesClass I-VIII

YearFund Released

(Central + State)Schools

& SSK/AIEKitchen-cum-Store

sanctioned

2006-07 Rs 9.367 Cr 74698 18734

2007-08 Rs 10.596 Cr 85903 21192

2008-09 00 89059 00

2009-10 Rs 23.3305 Cr 89914 46661

Fund @ Rs 5000/- has been released to the Districts for all the schools except NCLP Schools

For Schools where large number of students are studying, @ 5000/- for purchasing Kitchen Devices not suffice . So it is proposed to enhance the assistance to Rs 10,000/- per unit.

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System for cooking, serving and supervising Mid Day Meals in the school

Cooking ingredients like pulses, vegetables including leafy ones, salt, condiments, oil and fuel etc. are purchased locally by the members of Self Help Groups/others. Cooking and serving of cooked food are done by the members of the Self Help Groups excepting in the schools situated at DGHC areas.

In DGHC areas it is done by the members of Mother Teacher Associations.

Officials deputed from block/ sub-division/ district, ward councilors, the teachers of the concerned school,

Panchayat members and mothers of the children supervise the Cooked Mid-Day-Meal Programme.

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Fund Flow System

Finance Department, Government of West Bengal

School Education Department, Government of West Bengal

District Magistrate

Block Development officer [For Block]/sub- Divisional Officers [ for Municipalities]

Village Education Committee/SHG in charge of Cooking

[Where SHGs have Accounts]

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Food Grains Flow System

District manager, FCI

Distributors of the Public Distribution System (PDS)

Dealer of PDS at Block Level

Headmaster of the Schools

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Infrastructure

State Level

1- Project Director 1-Dy. Director (Civil)-(contract))

1- Administrative Officer 1-Dy. Director (Food)-(contract)

1-Accounts Officer 1-Accountant (contract)

1-MIS Coordinator 1-Head Assistant (contract)

-- Group ‘D’

District Level

1- Officer in Charge/Dy. Magistrate

1-Accountant

1-Accounts Officer 1- Data Entry operator (vacant)

1-MIS Coordinator

-- Group ‘D’ from DM’s Office

Block /Municipality

Level

AI at Block Level / Block Level Supervisor

1-Assistant Accountant (contract)

corporation Level

1-MDM co-coordinator (contract)

1-Data Entry Operator (contract)

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Quality Monitoring of Menus & Training of

SHGs and other persons involved in Cooking Institute of Hotel management Catering

Technology and Applied nutrition, Taratala, Kolkata & Food Technology Department ,Jadavpur University, Kolkata have been engaged to monitor the quality of meals and to train the SHGs & other persons involved in Cooking maintenance of hygiene standard.

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Findings of Quality Monitoring Team Basic infrastructures are lacking.

Smokeless Chullas need be used to avoid smoke problem

Most of the schools visited prepared meal with Rice & mixed vegetables. Due to high market price the schools repeating the same menu. Verities of menus need be introduced.

Separate Dinning Hall/Place may be arranged to create attraction for the children to take lunch.

To maintain hygiene standard the SHGs and Staff engaged in cooking need basic training.

“Considering financial constraints inadequate infrastructural facilities of Kitchen, Dinning Hall, the overall performance of Mid Day Meal Served in each school visited is satisfactory. They deserved appreciation for service of feeding students.”

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Instructions have been issued to display the quantity of food grains received, quantity of food grains utilized, other

ingredients purchased and utilized, number of children given MDM and roster of community members involved in the

Programme on weekly / monthly basis and menu on daily basis at all educational institutions, where the Mid-Day-Meal

Programme has started, to ensure transparency and openness in all aspects of the Programme. Accounts of Mid-Day-Meal are placed in the meetings of the concerned Village Education Committees / Ward Education Committees.

Systems to ensure transparency and openness in all Aspects of the Programme implementation

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Capacity building and Training

A team headed by Professor Shankar Chakraborty attached to the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Kolkata has been engaged for imparting training to all master trainers of all districts and the master trainers will impart training to the persons of self help groups and other persons involved in cooking.

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Arrangement for Official inspections to MDM centres

District Magistrates, Additional District Magistrates and other district level officials, the Sub-Divisional Officers, Block Development Officers and other officials of the Block and Sub Inspectors of Schools are visiting schools and inspecting the Mid-Day-Meal scheme regularly.

The State level officials also visit Mid-Day-Meal in schools when they visit the districts.

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Feedback/comments of Monitoring Institutions designated for the State to monitor implementation of MDM and action taken thereon.

Visva Bharati University, Sriniketan, the monitoring institution of this state has forwarded 1st half yearly report on implementation of cooked Mid-Day-Meal Programme in Howrah district and Siliguri

sub-division of the state for the period from 1st February, 2009 to 31st July, 2009. The observations of the institution are as follows:- All the primary schools of Siliguri educational district are covered

under Mid-Day-Meal Programme while all the upper Primary Schools are not covered under this Programme. In the majority of the visited schools neither health check up camps

were organized nor were the children of those schools given micronutrients or de-worming medicines. Space is common problem to store food grains of MDM in primary

schools. The general impression regarding safety, hygiene and cleanliness in so

far as the cooking and serving of Mid-Day-Meal are concerned is good. There is almost no participation of parents of the children and the

members of the Village Education Committees in the Mid-Day-Meal Programme and supervision from the ends of the community members

is also lacking. Shishu Shiksha Kendras are also providing cooked Mid-Day-Meal but the quality of the cooked meal is different than that being served by the

primary schools.

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Implementation of the Programme in this State has contributed immensely towards achievement of the Programme objectives and its positive effects on attendance and nutritional status are being observed.

Introduction of Mid-Day-Meal in Primary Schools, Shishu Shiksha Kendras, Upper Primary Schools and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendras has substantially increased enrolment.

It has been able to reduce the drop out rate thereby ensuring satisfactory completion of primary education.

The Scheme has been able to attract more and more children of under-privileged section of the society to formal education system

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It has raised the quality of primary education for all children.

It has raised the health and nutritional status of children of Primary Schools, Shishu Shiksha Kendras, Upper Primary Schools and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendras.

Many schools grow vegetables in the kitchen gardens of the schools and utilize the vegetables in Mid-Day-Meal. In some schools in Birbhum district, fish for Mid-Day-Meal is procured from the ponds managed by the school teachers.

Besides this, in some schools of Purba Medinipur district the community members often contribute their agricultural produce to this Programme.

Success

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Proposal for Food Grains & Cooking Cost 2010-11

Central Government State Government

ClassFood

GrainsIn MT

Fund forFood

Grains(Rs. in lakhs)

CookingCost

(Rs. in lakhs)

Honorarium to Cook-cum-

Helper(Rs. in lakhs)

TransportAssistanc

e(Rs.in lakhs)

Cooking Cost

(Rs. in lakhs)

Honorarium to

cook-cum-Helper

(Rs. in lakhs)

Class I-V179288.4

010129.7

936216.2

621135.0

6(Prim.+ U/Prim.)

1344.6617928.8

4 7045.02(Prim.+ U/Prim.)Class VI-

VIII148285.6

48378.14

29854.84

1112.14 9885.71

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Hungry Summer Challenged by Mid-Day-Meal

Potapara Pry. School, Purba Medinipur

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Women Empowerment : SHG under preparation of Mid-Day-Meal

Nimtala High School at Purba Medinipur District

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THANK YOU

School Education Department

Mid Day Meal Section

West Bengal