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Bihar Mid Day Meal Scheme: Performance, Challenges, and Solutions

Explore the performance and financial achievement of the Bihar Mid Day Meal Scheme. Discover the identified issues and the state government's solutions being attempted for effective implementation.

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Bihar Mid Day Meal Scheme: Performance, Challenges, and Solutions

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  1. Mid Day Meal Scheme, Bihar AWP 2011-12

  2. 2010-11 Performance (Upto Dec 2010)[ Primary]

  3. 2010-11 Performance (Upto Dec 2010)[ Upper Primary]

  4. 2010-11 Financial Achievement (Upto Dec 2010)

  5. 2010-11 Financial Achievement (Upto Dec 2010)

  6. 2010-11 Food Grain Lifting • Rice from FCI • Allotment : 207900 MTs • Total Offtake (incl OB) : 135108.66 MTs • Total Consumption : 99637.94 MTs • % Consumed : 73% • % Consumed of Allotment : 48% • Payment to FCI : 30% of Bills Raised

  7. Issues Identified by the State Government • Food grain Flow Management • Multiplicity of Agencies involved: FCI, SFC and Local Transport Agent • Non Availability of Rice in FCI Godowns at certain points • Lack of Storage Capacity in Schools leading to early spoiling of stored food grains • Lack of robust Information Systems as to exact balance in schools

  8. Issues Identified by the State Government (Cont’) • Fund Flow Management to Schools • Lack of robust information systems as to the exact financial requirements at the school level • Time taken in fund transfers • Delays at the District Unit Level • Lack of expertise in handling large cash transfers • Delays at the level of Banks • only 51% of schools have CBS Bank Accounts • Actual fund transfers by banks take an inordinate amount of time

  9. Issues Identified by the State Government (Cont’) • Provisioning is required all round the year, while provision for cooks-cum-helpers is only for 10 months • The monthly honorarium for cooks-cum-helpers at Rs 1000/- per month is too low • Monitoring the quality of rice supplied • Ensuring payments to the FCI against quantities offtaken

  10. Solutions Being Attempted • Internet Based Management Information System • The BRPs (Block Resource Persons) obtain reports from schools at end of month and enter them by the 7th of the succeeding month <210.212.23.52/mdm> • Software flags schools which would require funds/ food grains • The District i/c transfers funds by 15th • RTGS transfers for CBS Accounts • Cheques to be made available otherwise by 15th

  11. Solutions Being Attempted (Cont’) • Internet Based Management Information System (Cont’) • The State Headquarters gets exception reports and initiates action in cases of lapse • Accounting Functions being outsourced to CA firms in the Districts to ensure continuity and uniformity of practices • SMS based daily reporting system is being designed and would be operationalised this year

  12. Solutions Being Attempted (Cont’) • State Food Corporation shall stamp all bags with the logo of the scheme • Districts to ensure payment within a week of FCI informing them of offtake of grains • Cylindrical Storage Bins being proposed for each school to improve storage

  13. Requests to the PAB • To sanction a sum of Rs 1 crore towards Internet Based MIS • To sanction a sum of Rs 3 crore towards daily SMS/ IVRS based monitoring • To sanction a sum of Rs 36,72,12,000 towards providing Cylindrical Storage Bins in each school • To sanction a sum of Rs 1500 for a period of 12 months towards honorarium of the cooks-cum-helpers

  14. Requests to the PAB (Cont’) • To sanction additional amounts to each school to purchase plates and cutlery for the children • To sanction a sum of Rs 9.17 crore towards imparting training to cooks-cum-helpers on Hygienic Cooking Methods • To increase the Transportation Allowance from the present Rs 75/- per qtl to Rs 95/- per qtl

  15. Thanks

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