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In India, the school lunch programme is known as the "mid-day meal programme." On school working ... more In India, the school lunch programme is known as the "mid-day meal programme." On school working days, it entails providing free lunch/snacks/meals to students. The program's main goals are to protect children from hunger in the classroom, increase school enrollment and attendance, improve socialisation among children of all castes, combat childhood malnutrition, and social empowerment of women through job creation. In India, the concept of midday meals as a public welfare concept dates back to 1925, when a scheme for poor children in the Madras Corporation region was inaugurated. Madras Corporation was one of the first to provide prepared lunches to children in Corporation schools in Madras; the practise was later expanded in the 1960s. The mid day meal programme in Tamil Nadu is one of the most well-known in the country. The programme was first implemented at a national level by the Indian government in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and again as a centrally supported initiative in the 1980s. On August 15, 1995, the then-Prime Minister of India re-launched a National Nutritional Support to Primary Education programme known as the MID DAY MEAL PROGRAMME (MDMP). Its goal was to increase enrolment, attendance, and retention while also increasing the nutritional quality of elementary school kids. Because universal primary education is a national aim, MDMP was established with the following goals Increase enrolment, improve school attendance as well as retention, Promote social integration, Improve nutritional status of the primary school children and Inculcate good food habits in children.
The present study deals with the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme on the enrollment of students in g... more The present study deals with the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme on the enrollment of students in govt. urban schools of Central Delhi District. The study focused on enrollment of total students before and after the implementation of scheme. The data was taken from the office record of schools. Analysis was done with help of percentage and graphical representation of data. The results showed that total strength of students increased after implementation of Mid Day Meal Scheme. The Mid day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour. Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world. The roots of the programme can be traced back to the pre-independence era, when a mid day meal programme was introduced in 1925 in Madras Corporation by the British administration. A mid day meal programme was introduced in the Union Territory of Puducherry by the French administration in 1930. Initiatives by state governments to children began with their launch of a mid day meal programme in primary schools in the 1962-63 school year. Tamil Nadu is a pioneer in introducing mid day meal programmes in India to increase the number of kids coming to school; Thiru K. Kamaraj, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, introduced it first in Chennai and later extended it to all districts of Tamil Nadu.
International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (UK,London)
The findings of the study have to be based on the context of the study. The study was conducted i... more The findings of the study have to be based on the context of the study. The study was conducted in three States-Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, which vary in their background and context. The MDM for children cooked in centralized kitchen was not applicable in any of the three States as it is prepared in the schools in all the states chosen for the study. The variation in context may be in terms of infrastructure facilities and other school and community related indicators. Regarding evaluation question one, implementation of MDM Scheme as intended, it was found that taking all the aspects of implementation together; implementation is at 45.6% level, just below average. The variables were assigned values from 0-2, zero for not at all as per the scheme; one for partially as per the scheme; and two for completely as per the scheme.
The Present Paper explored Social School Climate and Emotional-Intelligence of the High school st... more The Present Paper explored Social School Climate and Emotional-Intelligence of the High school students in both rural and urban settings. This study was conducted in the school of a specific geographical area named Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA). The results of the study elaborated the stated objectives that is 'to compare the Emotional Intelligence between respondents having favourable and unfavourable Socio-Emotional School Climates', The Mean and SD values obtained on Emotional-Intelligence Inventory were calculated and presented in this study.
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Bluerose Publishers (India)
In India, the school lunch programme is known as the "mid-day meal programme." On school working ... more In India, the school lunch programme is known as the "mid-day meal programme." On school working days, it entails providing free lunch/snacks/meals to students. The program's main goals are to protect children from hunger in the classroom, increase school enrollment and attendance, improve socialisation among children of all castes, combat childhood malnutrition, and social empowerment of women through job creation. In India, the concept of midday meals as a public welfare concept dates back to 1925, when a scheme for poor children in the Madras Corporation region was inaugurated. Madras Corporation was one of the first to provide prepared lunches to children in Corporation schools in Madras; the practise was later expanded in the 1960s. The mid day meal programme in Tamil Nadu is one of the most well-known in the country. The programme was first implemented at a national level by the Indian government in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and again as a centrally supported initiative in the 1980s. On August 15, 1995, the then-Prime Minister of India re-launched a National Nutritional Support to Primary Education programme known as the MID DAY MEAL PROGRAMME (MDMP). Its goal was to increase enrolment, attendance, and retention while also increasing the nutritional quality of elementary school kids. Because universal primary education is a national aim, MDMP was established with the following goals Increase enrolment, improve school attendance as well as retention, Promote social integration, Improve nutritional status of the primary school children and Inculcate good food habits in children.
The present study deals with the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme on the enrollment of students in g... more The present study deals with the impact of Mid Day Meal Scheme on the enrollment of students in govt. urban schools of Central Delhi District. The study focused on enrollment of total students before and after the implementation of scheme. The data was taken from the office record of schools. Analysis was done with help of percentage and graphical representation of data. The results showed that total strength of students increased after implementation of Mid Day Meal Scheme. The Mid day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour. Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world. The roots of the programme can be traced back to the pre-independence era, when a mid day meal programme was introduced in 1925 in Madras Corporation by the British administration. A mid day meal programme was introduced in the Union Territory of Puducherry by the French administration in 1930. Initiatives by state governments to children began with their launch of a mid day meal programme in primary schools in the 1962-63 school year. Tamil Nadu is a pioneer in introducing mid day meal programmes in India to increase the number of kids coming to school; Thiru K. Kamaraj, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, introduced it first in Chennai and later extended it to all districts of Tamil Nadu.
International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (UK,London)
The findings of the study have to be based on the context of the study. The study was conducted i... more The findings of the study have to be based on the context of the study. The study was conducted in three States-Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, which vary in their background and context. The MDM for children cooked in centralized kitchen was not applicable in any of the three States as it is prepared in the schools in all the states chosen for the study. The variation in context may be in terms of infrastructure facilities and other school and community related indicators. Regarding evaluation question one, implementation of MDM Scheme as intended, it was found that taking all the aspects of implementation together; implementation is at 45.6% level, just below average. The variables were assigned values from 0-2, zero for not at all as per the scheme; one for partially as per the scheme; and two for completely as per the scheme.
The Present Paper explored Social School Climate and Emotional-Intelligence of the High school st... more The Present Paper explored Social School Climate and Emotional-Intelligence of the High school students in both rural and urban settings. This study was conducted in the school of a specific geographical area named Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh (INDIA). The results of the study elaborated the stated objectives that is 'to compare the Emotional Intelligence between respondents having favourable and unfavourable Socio-Emotional School Climates', The Mean and SD values obtained on Emotional-Intelligence Inventory were calculated and presented in this study.
Bluerose Publishers (India)