Mid Day Meal Scheme in Maharashtra

middledledle twenty-four hour period repast arrangement in MaharashtraABSTRACTThis paper represents the overview of case Program of dietal retain to primary genteelness known as mid(prenominal) Day repast intention in Maharashtra. The mal livelihood was widespread in India and other developing countries. The down the stairs nutrition and over nutrition may driving referable to sundry(a) reasons. The heterogeneous causes of malnutrition and its effects stick explained previously in this paper. The paper primarily focuses on the background and implementation of middle Day meal Scheme, impacts or benefits or achievements of the purpose atomic number 18 discussed. The Mid Day Meal Scheme has initiated and employed in practice and score achieved the defined objectives such as ameliorated the cultivate exercise, attendance of children in schooltime and decrease the malnutrition problems to many extent. During the last 8-9 years the different activities condu ct been carried out chthonian this political program throughout India. The progress of the program or turning away achieved at individually year gradually by considering and solving the various problems relating to implementation of fascinate.Keywords Mid Day Meal Scheme, malnutrition, nutritional deficiency, impact.INTRODUCTIONThe school execution of the children is indirectly affected by nutrition experimental condition. The chthonicnourished children cannot concent come out on their studies and thusly it holds the education process. The child with empty stomach deviate his concent proportionalityn or attention to food for thought instead of learning. So the Mid Day Meal Scheme has implemented to overwhelm the hunger to improve nutrition situation of children as well as their learning process by crack sufficient nutritious food during school mean solar solar daytimes. In India the problems like malnutrition, under nutrition increasing unacceptably high though India has made grand development in science, medicine and technology with economic produce and though it is second fastest growing country in the world.The malnutrition is a 2-dimensional complex issue and affected due to poverty, insufficient food consumption, inadequate food distribution, gender inequality, poor env bidmental and sanitary facilities, lack of education and social services. Thus to mitigate the malnutrition problems the different turning aways have implemented for the bodily development of children, their nutrition view and socio- economic development. The different causes of malnutrition and its consequences may be canvass in different perspectives. The Mid Day Meal scheme is implemented and used in practice to overcome the hunger of school children, widespread poverty, reduce social and gender inequity.STUDY REGIONThe issue area, Maharashtra is single of the agriculturally, economically developed state of India. It is the foci of economic, administrative and so cial activities of the southeast horse opera part of India. The state is located in south western part of India between 15 45 to 22 00 The North Latitudes and at 72 45to 8 45 East longitudes having 3, 07,713 sq km. area. The state is shared into 36 Districts also sub divided in to 6 Division. The geographic area of Maharashtra state is 308 Lakh hectares and its cultivable area is 225 Lakh hectares. market-gardening is the primary(prenominal)stay of the state of Maharashtra. It is the main occupation of the people. The major crops are Wheat, Millet, gamboge and rice in Maharashtra.According to census of India, 2011 total world is 112,372,972 of which manful and female are 58,361,397 and 54,011,575 respectively. The appendage rate of Maharashtra is 9.29%. The density of Maharashtra is 365 for 1km2. The sex ratio is 946.The literacy rate in Maharashtra has seen upward trend and is 82.91 percent as per 2011 population census. Of that, male literacy stands at 89.82 percent while female literacy is at 75.48 percent.CAUSES OF MALNUTRITIONThe Malnutrition causes may be multidimensional. Most of the literatures on nutrition indicate the problems of malnutrition in people, children caused due to poor quality, insufficient intake of food, disease, wellness problems, undue illness and so on The millions of persons, both children and adult suffer from under nutrition due to unfitness to get sufficient well quality of food because of poverty in most of the developing countries.The price and demand of the food fluctuates periodically ( infinitely) base on availability and seasons. Due to seasonal fluctuations the food production rate may breakdown. So the food distribution may get half-baked and the flow of income cuts down. This increases the risk of widespread famine. The famine occurred during 1974 in, China, Ethiopian and Nigeria virtually 30 million people were died due to famine in china.The cause of malnutrition is ignorance towards excessive diseases, illness, lack of fellowship, illiteracy, education about science, and nutrition is identified as one of the major cause of malnutrition. The inequality gender problems, inequality Socio- economical status are the causes of malnutrition due to unbalanced and unequal food distribution. The lack of knowledge about proper child care, disease management causes the malnutrition in children up to age of 0 to 6.Thus the cause of malnutrition is multidimensional based on social, economical, regional, physical, seasonal, political dimensions.IMPACTS OF MALNUTRITIONThe most of the developing countries badly suffers from malnutrition problems in adult as well as in children. The effects of malnutrition destroy the economic growth of country ultimately. The insufficient, poor quality of food minimizes the consumption of various nutrition elements so that the nutrition deficiency problems arise in developing countries. The iron deficiency causes the mental retardation, anemia which reduces the s chool performance of the children.The deficiency of tincture of iodine causes the cretinism in majority of people. The trim level of vitamin A in children suffers from centerfield and skin problems. The low weight or high weight causes under nutrition or over nutrition due to mineral and protein, muscle inadequacy. Thus consistently deficiency of above nutrition may cause excessive diseases and illness in children and increases the inability to improve the school performance. These are the physical problems caused due to malnutrition. The malnutrition affects on the children learning and concentration cogency so it decreases the attendance and enrollment in school and decreases the steady school performance Such malnourished children are quick and frequent affects by several(prenominal) infections.Thus due to poverty the people unable to spent to overcome the disease and illness due to malnutrition leads to breakdown of economic growth of people, auberge and ultimately country . The children are the future citizen of our country so the malnutrition problems should be minimized at school age children level through nutrition and health education.BACKGROUND AND PROVISIONS OF MID sidereal day MEAL final causeThe Mid day Meal Scheme is initiated on 15 th terrible 1995 as a National Program of Nutritional support to basal education. The Main aim of this scheme is to increase the attendance of children in school and improve their Physical and health, nutritional level by offering sufficient, good quality and nutritionally adequate meal per school working day. It was initiated in only 2408 blocks and in 2004. It has been revised most of the time and currently operational in all blocks of country to cover the children below age of 14 years. i.e. children in scorees 1 to 5. Under this scheme various revised activities have been conducted throughout the country per year. And the implementation progress and problems of this scheme have been analyzed at National level with more vigor and enthusiasm.In 2004, the scheme was revised to supply cooked mid day meal for children in class I-V with.300 calories and 8-12 gm. of protein per day. In addition food grains should be provided per month to the children. In 2007, the scheme has revised and start to provide mid day meal for the children in class VI to VIII.The food nutrition norm should be tending(p) to the students by mid day meal scheme program as followsThis information was inclined by the Union Human mental imagery ontogeny Minister, Smt. Smriti Irani in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha question (2014)The various cooked food should be provided derived from rice such as Idali Sambhar, Dal rice Khichdi, Rice Kheer, Vegetable Rice, etc. as mid day meal suggested by School Education department. Also biscuits, eggs or bananas should be given to the students once in a weak. The weakly mid day meal timetable should be prepared by school and followed regularly.The food quality see and re gular monitoring of Mid Day Meal Scheme should be done effectively and Maharashtra has well established system for it.4.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE MID DAY MEAL SCHEMEThe provision of adequate nutritional meal shrive of cost to the school children on school working days is the main objective of the Mid Day Meal Scheme. The scheme was implemented with future(a) objectives-To mitigate hunger by providing hot cooked meal to the children in schools.To improve nutritional level of childrenTo promote poor children to increase the attendance in school, to help them to improve concentration in classroom, to increase retention and idle enrollment.To maintain social equality among the children.IMPACTS OF MID DAY MEAL SCHEMEThe mitigation of hunger at school children is one of the important objectives of Mid Day Meal Scheme. The hunger was eliminated by providing the mi day meal to every student during school days so that the attendance of children in school, retention rate and fresh enrollment has increased in Maharashtra as compared to other states in India except Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The fresh enrollment number has continuously increased. The response of teachers in Maharashtra shows that the fresh enrollment has increased due to mid day meal about 75%. In Maharashtra near about 50% of sample schools have increased the student attendance in school and increased the awareness towards school and education. The rates also have been increased in Maharashtra about 66%.The mid day meal scheme has also decreased the malnutrition problems, starvation and hunger. This has increased the health status of children, increased physical level so increased the learning capability and concentration of children in school.Due to mid day meal scheme the problems of socio-economic inequity, gender inequity has decreased to some extent. Thus various researchers and organizations have conducted case studies and have reported the performance and impact of mid day meal scheme. The studies show s that the mid day meal scheme as National Program resulted in an increase in fresh enrollments, regular attendance of children in class and their learning capability with social and gender equity.SUGGESTIONSThe ponder has identified some scope for improvement of impact of mid day meal scheme and children health improvements. The schemes should be employed for employment for expression of kitchen sheds, safe drinking water provision, good and sufficient sanitary requirements, regular health checkup facilities, regular monitoring of schemes, regular reporting of scheme, update the various provisions of schemes, guidelines and education regarding science, nutrition and health should be coherent regularly by giving medication of India. For such various schemes funds from various committee and government should be electronically transfer in beak of implementation authority so that the total fund should be gettable and used for scheme itself.CONCLUSIONThis paper has provided an ove rview of National Program- Mid Day Meal Scheme of Maharashtra. The various causes and effects of malnutrition have explained. The mid day meal scheme is employing in practice regularly in Maharashtra. The mid day meal scheme has achieved the basic objectives like increased the children performance in school, attendance, retention and increased learning capability in students. The problems of malnutrition reduced to some extent. The mid day meal scheme and similar government scheme should be started and employed regularly to improve the physical growth of children and economic and social growth of country.REFERENCESAnima Rani Si, Naresh Kumar Sharma (2008), An Empirical Study of the Mid-Day Meal Programme in Khurda, Orissa, scotch and Political weekly, pp. 46-55.Annual Report (2013-14), Department of School Education Literacy Department of Higher Education Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India.Economic Survey of Maharashtra (2013-2014), Directorate of economics and statistics, think department, government of Maharashtra, Mumbai.Jean Dreze, Aparajita Goyal (2003), Future of Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. no-44, pp-4673-83.K. 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