Mid Day Meal-Not a Sufficient Deal

Abstract

The world’s largest school feeding programme, “Mid Day Meal†has been running in India since 1995. This paper deals with different aspects of this scheme, Firstly this paper highlights the role of MDM in the economy of India, secondly this paper brings out the facts that how’s MDM less effective for promoting school participation and facilitating healthy growth of children, Thirdly the paper deals with the quality standard of MDM related to its main two objectives, Fourthly the paper includes all the scams and issues related to MDM and the last but not least the paper come up with some suggestions which can help MDM to be a sufficient and significant programme of second populated country of the world.
Keywords: Healthy growth of children, Mid Day Meal, Promoting school participation.