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No. of School days in a Year 220 In case of drought the Scheme runs for about 41 more days during summers
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Administrative Structure
Governing Body headed by the Chief Secretary of the State Secretary Basic Education as the State level Nodal Officer An Autonomous MDM Authority with Director as head constituted at State level District Magistrate as the District level Nodal Officer with Basic Education Officer to assist District MDM Cell with one Co-ordinator & one Computer Operator
Reporting structure
Monthly basis of reporting MDM register at school/ block/ district level for monthly physical & financial information:
The schools fill up the number of students availing mid day meal on daily basis in the school level MDM register. This number is taken from the attendance register; The data provided by schools is supposed to be compiled at the block level and further at the district level; The district office submits the district-wise data so compiled to the MDMA on monthly basis through online on www.upmdm.org
Non availability of exception reports where parameters like no. of schools where meal was not cooked, where no. of students who availed meals is greater than a certain percentage e.g. 90%, or instances where meal was not cooked for 3 or more days etc are available for/to decision-making In case of delay in information from some schools, data for such schools available only in the next month; Physical inspection/ monitoring of the scheme presently based on random selection basis and not on exception basis which may be possible once the MDMA and the State Govt. is facilitated with daily data of the students who availed or did not/ could not avail the meals on a 7 particular day.
Concept note prepared in 2007 took into cognizance the ground reality of expansion of mobile telephony in rural area & suggested a Daily Monitoring System based on toll-free sms 8
Features contd.
The info gets patched-in on the computer system MIS generated on a web-based system Daily MIS for MDM to be available at District, Division & State level Auto sms on daily basis to NPRC, ABSA, DC & BSA for schools not serving meals & for those not giving data; auto mails to District Magistrates Helpline available through a Toll-free number for information & for data pulling Hardcopy of info provided daily by the schools through IVRS to be verified monthly by the headmaster in monthly meeting Provision of an independent 3rd Party Technical Audit for verification of data 13
Benefits
Data pull vis--vis data push Teacher not to spend a single paisa User of Info controlling the information flow instead of sender Direct & instant info mechanism from grass-root to the State without intermediate levels Transparency & neatness of data resulting into truthful information Percent basis of consumption pattern would be done away with (since exact data is not available at district level in present system of information flow)
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Benefits. contd.
Instant info leading to check on distortion/ cooking of data Requisite Decision Support System available Faster to implement (two months) No need for any mobile phones to be given to teachers Completely outsourced GOI can directly monitor without any reports from State Govt.
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