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Mid-day Meals: No taste, no nutrients
Inferior quality of pulses, vegetables, small eggs, using low quantity and quality oil, supplying low quality watery ‘sambar’ or ‘rasam’ weekly three times are not improving the nutritional status of students of government primary, upper primary and high schools. The cooking agencies are not following the guidelines of the State government and there is no improvement of the contents of the meal so
Mid-day meals (MDM) Scheme, if implemented properly, would improve the nutritional status of school-age children. But due to commercialization, the purpose is not being served.
Inferior quality of pulses, vegetables, small eggs, using low quantity and quality oil, supplying low quality watery ‘sambar’ or ‘rasam’ weekly three times are not improving the nutritional status of students of government primary, upper primary and high schools. The cooking agencies are not following the guidelines of the State government and there is no improvement of the contents of the meal so as to provide nutritious and potential meal to students. Thus, the tasteless midday meal without nutrients is neither satisfying nor fulfilling students’ hunger.
According to the entitlement norms per child per day under MDM Scheme issued by the State government, the cooking agencies should follow the rules and serve eggs thrice per week and sambar twice in a week, vegetable curry, dal made with leafy vegetables. Every child of primary school should serve 100 gms rice with 20 grams dal, 50 grams vegetable curry made with
5 grams oil.
Students of upper primary and high schools should be provided 150 grams rice with 30 grams dal, 75 grams vegetable curry and 7.5 grams of oil in the curry. Sambar should be contain 10 grams dal and 25 grams vegetables for primary schools and 15 grams dal and 35 grams vegetables per each child in upper primary and high schools. But the agencies are not following the guidelines of the government.
The students alleged that the cooking agencies are not implementing the menu, prescribed by the government, in several schools. They are ignoring to provide eggs thrice in a week. Lack of supervision by village, mandal, district and state-level officials is stated to one of the reasons for the negligence of the cooking agencies in strictly implementing mid-day meal programme.
Students of various schools alleged that the cooking agencies are turning deaf ear to their demands for providing proper meals to them and urged officials concerned to implement mid-day meal as per the government norms and guidelines.
– Satyam Konda, Huzurabad
