Authors : Jyoti D. Kamble, Anuradha S. Deshmukh
Page Nos : 118-125
Description :
The school programmes were started in our country keeping in mind the social and economic advancement of the country. Urbanisation, Industrialisation and an increase in the number of working mothers frequently brought about longer school days. This mean, that children often did not receive proper meals at home and therefore needed to have a meal at school. Thus, a free compulsory primary education became more common and pressures were brought to bear on governmental authorities to provide school lunch
Descriptive research design will be use for the Study. 27-30 schools will select and 1000 samples, Students (Both Boys and Girls) will be select from rural and urban primary and secondary schools of Amravati and Nagpur District for the above study. Evaluation of MDM at school level. This phase was conducted l in the selected schools. All the children studying in 5th to 8th standard were enrolled in the study after obtaining a written consent. Data on anthropometry, socio economic status as well as practices and perceptions regarding MDM, sanitation at cooking place were collected. through spot observations implementation of MDM at school level was also studied. Data on covid condition record of school during pandemic period. Raw food distributes, like chana chole, mug dal, green gram, dal, Rice and money transfer in students parent account also. Serving was done by MDM helpers and senior students in the schools. Observation and evaluation of mdm finds in result are serving spoons being used in the schools were of different sizes. Jugs and other utensils were also used in some schools for serving. Plates for consuming MDM were provided from school. Somewhere tiffins are brought by children for mdm menu.It was observed that teachers were present at the time when meals were started being served. However, presence of teachers for monitoring throughout MDM serving as well as motivation by teachers were lacking. Most (93%) of the children consumed MDM in schools Main reason for not consuming MDM was not liking the taste among those who reported that they didn't eat MDM at school.Khichadi vegetable fried rice is the most liked item (28.7%) and chana (24.6%) was the most disliked item served under MDM, among children.Three fourth of the children opinioned that MDM is beneficial for them. The main benefit of MDM as reported by the children, was improvement in health (28.7%).
