Volume : III, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

Administrative Flaws in the Mid Day Meal Scheme in India; Evidences From Recent Critical Cases

Tarananum, Dr. Nasrin

Abstract :

Mid Day Meals (MDM) in the Government Primary and its aided schools was envisaged to stop hunger, to drag children from home to schools, to improve enrolment and to increase the rate of retention in the school premise. Students come to school and mid day meal is served to them but quite often terrible incidences occur. Sometimes hygiene plays the devil role while sometimes adulteration takes a horrible form. Moreover, the administrative flaws in the execution of the scheme allow most of the devils to disturb the trust of the people & pupils in the scheme. Several incidents of flaws are visible through cases reported by the mass-media and local authorities during the execution of MDM schemes. The other drawbacks to be pointed out are that this scheme suffers from lack of effective and fair monitoring and from the dominance of corruptions during its execution. This paper is a genuine try to point out some of severe flaws during the administration of such a pivotal scheme. The paper is subdivided into two parts -The first part elaborates the administrative charts with its rights and duties while the second part of the paper is a try to reveal the administrative flaws in practice. The actual gap between responsibilities assigned and the accountability of the concerned officers involved in the MDM scheme.

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Tarananum, Dr. Nasrin Administrative Flaws in the Mid Day Meal Scheme in India; Evidences From Recent Critical Cases International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 8 August 2014

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