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PAISA District Surveys Mid Day Meals (2012)

PAISA District Surveys Mid Day Meals (2012). Provisional. Yamini Aiyar, Sr. Research Fellow, CPR. Introduction to PAISA District Surveys. Coverage 4 Districts in 2 States Uttar Pradesh: Hardoi and Jaunpur Bihar: Nalanda and Purnea Schools: 110-115 (average) per district

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PAISA District Surveys Mid Day Meals (2012)

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  1. PAISA District Surveys Mid Day Meals (2012) Provisional Yamini Aiyar, Sr. Research Fellow, CPR

  2. Introduction to PAISA District Surveys • Coverage • 4 Districts in 2 States • Uttar Pradesh: Hardoi and Jaunpur • Bihar: Nalanda and Purnea • Schools: 110-115 (average) per district Who Does PAISA ? • Local NGOs, universities, college students in each district • Why PAISA ? • Current Budget for MDM Rs. 11,937 crore: • How does this money flow to schools and districts? • Do schools receive this money? • Is this adequate to ensure that meals provided in schools meet the norms? Methodology • Analysis of GOI PAB minutes, State Quarterly Progress Reports and Sanction Orders • Analysis of district Sanction Orders, Utilization Certificates, Monthly and Quarterly Progress Reports, Release Orders, Audit Reports • School level surveys (passbooks, cashbooks, vouchers) Budget line items analyzed • Food grains • Cooking cost (CC) • Cook cum helper (CCH) • Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (MME)

  3. Findings

  4. Quality of record keeping a serious concern: Voices from the district Humara hard-drive 6 mahiney pehle crash ho gaya. Humare paas soft copy nahi hai. Agar aap ko copy chahiye, toh yahaan aa ke le lijiye. Ek computer operator purey district ka data ikatrit karta hai, kabhi kabhi khaana khane ke liye samay bhi nahi milta.

  5. Quality of record keeping a serious concern: Notes from the district Of the day spent in the MDM district office, the official spent the entire morning trying to turn on the computer and then watching the computer crash. This went on till afternoon, after which the said official left.The only other computer that worked had a virus, and was very slow.- Field observation by AI Team

  6. Quality of record keeping a serious concern: A flavour of the problem • MPRs and QPRs incomplete, in one district they were not even prepared • Utilization Certificatesnot available in Bihar • Audit reports for 2011-12 not available anywhere • Sanction Orders in one district were only kept as unsigned soft copies • IVRS data not available as officers did not have appropriate passwords

  7. Quality of record keeping a serious concern: Voices from Schools Stock register chori ho jaaney ke kaaran upyog mein laaya gaya chaawal evam prapt chawal ki jaankaari nahin prapt hui. Parivartan lagat register maintain na hone ke kaaran incharge shikshak ne MDM register nahi dekhaya.

  8. Quality of record keeping a serious concern: School

  9. When do districts receive and release foodgrains and cooking costs?

  10. Even flow of foodgrains and cooking cost from GOI to States

  11. Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh

  12. Just under 50% food grains released by Hardoi till October 2011

  13. No funds released by Hardoi for cooking costs till September 2011

  14. No funds released by Hardoi for cooking costs till September 2011

  15. Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

  16. Even flow of foodgrains from Jaunpur to blocks and schools

  17. Only 15% cooking costs released in and by December 2011

  18. Nalanda, Bihar

  19. Even flow of food grains from district to block and schools

  20. Slow start in cooking cost releases by Nalanda

  21. Purnea, Bihar

  22. Even flow of food grains from district to block and schools

  23. More than half the year’s cooking cost is released by November

  24. Summary • Relatively smooth grain and cooking cost fund flow from State governments to districts • Hardoi and Jaunpur data seems to indicate that there are many bottlenecks at the district level in releasing cooking cost fund flows on time • Nalanda and Purnea seem to perform far better at the district level in terms of grain and cooking cost fund flow

  25. When do schools in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar receive their food grains and cooking costs?

  26. MDM performance at the school level FY 2011-12 Number of meals served/ enrollment and attendance Number of working days on which MDM is served

  27. Percentage of schools serving MDM on at least one day every month

  28. Barsaat ke mausam mein MDM kabhi kabhi nahi aata hai, kachhi sadak ke kaaran • School observation

  29. Significant gap between availability of grain and total grain required in some months: Nalanda % of schools below requirement Requirement = No. of meals per day*no. of working days*norm Available grain= Opening balance in the financial quarter+ receipts

  30. Significant gap between availability of grain and total grain required in some schools: Purnea Requirement = No. of meals per day*no. of working days*norm Available grain= Opening balance in the quarter + receipts in the quarter

  31. Are meals served according to norms?

  32. Significant gap between expected consumption by norm and actual consumption : UP

  33. Food grain consumption pattern in MPR in accordance with norms

  34. Cooking cost consumption pattern in MPR in accordance with norms

  35. Consumption in Bihar: A mixed picture

  36. Food grain consumption pattern in MPR in accordance with norms

  37. Cooking cost consumption pattern in MPR in accordance with norms

  38. Actual consumption Vs consumption based on attendance: Bihar

  39. Actual consumption Vs consumption based on attendance: Bihar

  40. Summary • MDM performance is variable across districts. Significant gap between working days and days on which meals are served in Bihar • Wide variations in timing of grain receipt in schools. Particularly in some months • In UP, grains and cooking costs received per child is on average below the norm • In Bihar grain and cooking cost receipt is above the norm but this is offset by the fact that meals are not served through the year • Overall consumption patterns are variable. Many schools report a wide gap between actual grains and cooking cost utilized and norm

  41. When do districts receive and release funds for paying the Cook cum Helper (CCH)?

  42. Funds release pattern (GOI and State) for CCH is erratic

  43. Funds release from Hardoi district to schools is even through the year

  44. Fund release from Purneato schools is extremely slow

  45. When does the CCH receive her payment?

  46. 88% CCH in Hardoi are paid within 3 months. 56% in Jaunpur

  47. 59% CCH receive their salary once in 6 months in Nalanda and 38% in Purnea

  48. How do Management, Monitoring and Evaluation funds flow?

  49. Hardoi’s receipt of MME went from 0 to 100% between October and December 2011 according to district MPRs

  50. 65 percent of funds for MME were not released until December 2011 in Nalanda and Purnea

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