The
mid-day meal programme, being run in the State, for school
children at times makes headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In several schools and anganwadis the tendency of providing
sub-standard food or serving less food has become common.
Government brings these schemes and programmes with good intentions
but its implementation is not done properly. The basic aim
of the mid-day meal plan is to create interest among the children
towards school and study. On the one hand the children get
food for one time in a day whereas in this pretext they come
to study in schools. The possibility of students presence
increases with the help of this programme and the students
begin to study. But the present situation speaks otherwise.
Serving of sub standard food or less food or non availability
of food has negative impact on the children and they may not
like to go to schools. This is not a lone case. Other welfare
oriented programmes are also meeting the same fate. At administrative
level the officials do not make honest efforts and have a
bad eye on the government money. It should not come as a surprise
that the grain meant for Annapurna yojna is being sold in
the market. All this is because transparent working system
is not being adopted. Either the monitoring system for effective
implementation of these programmes is weak or it is not in
existence at all. As per the requirements, the Government
should keep a beady eye on its employees. Complaints about
misuse of government machinery and materials should be removed
at the administrative level itself. Government policies, schemes
and programmes should not be left to their fate after introduction.
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