Tag: Mid Day Meal Scheme

These are images of children of Nagada Village, which had shot into national headlines for malnutrition deaths. It seems nothing much has changed. Students here reportedly have to walk 20km to collect the MDM ration.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday approved a revision in the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, increasing the budget expenditure to Rs 12,054 Crore for 2019-20 from Rs 11,000 crore announced at the time of the budget. This would be in addition to the subsidy of about Rs 8,000 crore borne by Department […]

Bhubaneswar: Mid-day Meal (MDM) scheme in Odisha is apparently in distress. For the last four-year period, not only institutions implementing the MDM schemes were on the descent but a steep dip in MDM beneficiaries was also observed. While the implementing institutions portrayed a fall of 8 per cent during the last four-year period (2015-19), the […]