MDM Supreme Court Evaluation Form

1. Please select your district, block and school name below: *This question is required.

District:
Block:
School:

2. Please enter your correct school UDISE code in the box below: *This question is required. This question requires a valid number format.

4. What are the total number of students enrolled in your school? *This question is required. This question requires a valid number format.

5. Food Grains *This question is required.

5 (i) Whether the food grains are transported from FCI or supply is taken from Fair Price Shop?

5 (ii) What are the arrangements for transporting food grains from FCI godown/ Fair Price Shop to School to ensure that the actual quality and quantity as supplied by these agencies reaches to the school store room?

6. Cooking of Meal *This question is required.

6 (i) How is quality of cooked meal, particularly addition of vegetables and supply of fruits, eggs etc. ensured?

6 (ii) How is the calorific value (450 calories and 12 gms. of protein to every child at primary level & 700 calories and 20 gms. of protein to every child at upper primary level) ensured?

6 (iii) What is the system of assessing the nutritional value of the meal under MDM Scheme?

6 (iv-a) Who plans the weekly menu?

6 (iv-b) Is the weekly menu displayed in the school?

6 (v) Have any nutritional experts been involved in planning and evaluation of menus and quality of food served under the programme?

6 (vi) Is there any standard prescription to include minimum quantity of vegetables, dal/lentils? How is its implementation ensured?

7. Monitoring *This question is required.

7 (i) Is regularity, wholesomeness and over-all quality of Mid-day meal served to children being monitored on a daily basis? If yes, who monitors this?

7 (ii) Is cleanliness in cooking, serving and consumption of mid-day meal served to children being monitored on daily basis? If yes, who monitors the cleanliness?

7 (iii) Is timely procurement of Ingredients, fuel, etc. of good quality monitored on weekly basis?

7 (iv) Is quantity of raw food material (each item) taken out for cooking recorded in register on daily basis under signature of a designated monitoring person?

7 (v) Is raw material inspected daily before being put to use for cooking, with a register entry maintained on a daily basis under signature of a designated monitoring person?

8. Infrastructure : Kitchen-cum-store/ Storage Bins/ Utensils/water /fuel *This question is required.

8 (i) Whether School/Centre has pucca kitchen-cum-store as per specification of para 4.2 r/w Ann .9? If yes then give size and other details of kitchen and store, both separately.

8 (ii) Whether cooked food is procured from a centralized kitchen? If yes, then give the distance of the centralized kitchen from the school. How much time it takes for the cooked food to reach the school and whether it comes hot, in good and eatable condition?

8 (iii) What measures, if any, are being adopted to test and ensure quality and quantity of food in case food is procured from a centralized kitchen?

8 (iv) Whether School/Centre has Storage Bins? If yes, give number, size and nature of Bins.

8 (v) Whether School/ Centre has cooking utensils? If yes, give their number and size.

8 (vi) Whether the School/Centre has Utensils for Children to have food (plate, glass, bowl, spoon, one each per child)

8 (vii) Whether the School / Centre has functional hand wash facility / countries with soap? If yes, give their number.

8 (viii) Whether the School / Centre has proper arrangement for pure drinking water?

8 (ix) Whether the School / Centre has proper arrangement for clean water for washing vegetables, pulses, grains and cleaning used utensils?

8 (x) Whether the School /Centre has a suitable and child friendly eating place, say a dining room or veranda? If yes, give its size and other details is for arrangements for light and air.

8 (xii) Reason for not using gas based cooking and proposal to convert. (Write "NA" if already using gas based cooking)

9. Infrastructure : Capacity Building *This question is required.

9 (i) Details of Plan to train Teachers and organizers/Cooks/helpers?

9 (ii) Are VECs (Village Education Committees), SMCs (Steering and Monitoring Committee), MTAs (Mothers Teachers Association),etc. oriented for effective implementation through their close supervision?

10. Role of Teachers: *This question is required.

10 (i) Details of orienting Teachers regarding their role in the Scheme?

10 (ii) Has a training module been developed in 20 days in-service training for teachers under SSA (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan)? Details of Teacher training conducted in this regard.

10 (iii) Whether teachers are using the scheme to educate children about hygiene, discipline, social equity, conservation of water, etc.

11. (i) and (iii) Who is cooking the meal? (Please give breakup)
*This question is required.

(i) Cooks/ helpers engaged by the Department/village Panchayat
(ii) Self Help Groups
(iii) NGOs
(iv) Mothers Groups
Any other

12. Cooks: *This question is required.

11 (ii) Where NGOs are involved, it may be specified whether their selection is in accordance with the guidelines of MDM Scheme.

11 (iv) Are cooks/helpers given training (at least 15 days) on cleanliness, personal hygiene, cleaning of cooking area, cleaning and washing of food grains, etc. before using, and good practice of cooking, prior to employing/ deploying them on the job for preparing Mid Day Meal for children.

11 (vi) Who is engaging the cook? How they are appointed and what is the mechanism for ensuring accountability? Are there any norms?

11 (viii) Have self-Help Groups been tapped for the programme? (If not, constraints in this regard)

13. 11 (v) Renumeration being given to
*This question is required.

Organiser
Head Cook
Cook
Helper

14. Steering-cum-Monitoring Committees: *This question is required.

14 (i) Whether Steering-cum-Monitoring Committees constituted at District and block level and whether regular meetings are held, frequency of meetings?

14 (ii) What are the steps taken to involve mothers/ representatives of local bodies / Gram Panchayats / Gram Sabhas, etc., taking turns to supervise preparation of meals and feeding of children. What is the effect of this initiative?

14 (iii) What are the mechanisms for monitoring the Scheme (Mobilization of mothers/representatives of local bodies) ?

14 (iv) Whether quarterly assessment of the programme (Mobilization of mothers/representatives of local bodies) through District Institutes of Education & Training has begun?

15. External evaluation of the programme : *This question is required.

Whether evaluation through external agency(s) commissioned?

If yes, what are the parameters of the study?

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MDM Supreme Court Evaluation Form

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