Revamping of Mid Day Meal Scheme

During the 12^th Plan, it has been proposed to revamp the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) in the following manner:-

·         Extension of MDMS to unaided private schools in tribal, Scheduled Castes and Minority dominated districts.

·         Covering the children studying in pre-primary classes located in the premises of primary schools.

·         Revision of norms of assistance for existing components.

·         Revision of cooking cost by basing the MDM price index exclusively on the MDM basket of items.

·         Revision of Transportation Assistance of Non-North Eastern Region (NER) States @ Rs. 150 per quintal from its existing limit of Rs. 75 per quintal.

·         Revision of honorarium of cook-cum-helpers from Rs. 1000.00 to Rs. 1500.00 during 2013-14 and 2014-15 and Rs. 2000 during 2015-16 and 2016-17 per cook-cum-helper per month.

·         Revision of Management Monitoring and Evaluation (MME) rates @3% of the total recurring central assistance for the cost of food grains, cooking cost, transportation assistance and honorarium to cook-cum-helpers.

·         Revision of norms for Central assistance for the procurement of kitchen devices for new schools and replacement of kitchen devices after 5 years of their sanction @ 15,000 per school. This would be shared between Centre and State in the ratio of 75:25 except for the NER States where the sharing would be in the ratio of 90:10.

This was stated by the MoS, HRD, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

Courtesy: (pib.nic.in) Press Information Bureau