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PROGRAMME IN DEVELOPING
HEALTH INDEX AND SOCIAL VALUE
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11 Conclusion
12 Educational Implication
13 Questionnaire
14 Reference
ABSTRACT
The present was on the Mid Day Meal programme in developing health
index and social values. For this purpose, data of 75 adolescents from the high
school was collected. The obtained results showed that they are getting adequate
amount of calories every day. Also mid day meal programme had contributed to
increasing the health index of the students and also social values were developed in
the students.
INTRODUCTION
The Mid Day Meal programme of the government of India is designed to
improve the nutritional status of school age children national wide. They
programme supplies free lunches on working day for children in primary and upper
primary classes in government, government aided, local body, education guarantee
scheme, and alternate innovative Abhiyan, and national child labor project school
run by the Ministry of labor serving. 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000
schools and education Guarantee scheme centers. It is the largest such programme
in the world.
OBJECTIVES
Improving nutritional status of children on class 1to 7 in government,
government aided, local body, education guarantee scheme, and alternate
innovative Abhiyan centres.
Encouraging poor children belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend
schools more regularly and help this to concentrate on class room activities.
Providing nutritional support to children of primary stage in drought affected
areas during summer vacation.
Promoting school participation.
Preventing classroom hunger.
Facilitating the healthy growth of children.
Intrinsic educational value.
Fostering social equality.
Enhancing gender equality.
Psychological benefits.
HYPOTHESIS
There is no impact of Mid Day Meal Programme in developing health index.
There is no impact of Mid Day Meal Programme in developing social
values.
There is no impact of MDM Programme on the enrollment of students from
disabled section.
There is no difference among the opinion of students, teachers and parents
towards the impact of MDM Programme on the enrollement of students
from disabled section.
SIGNIFICANCE
The Mid Day Meal scheme has many potential benefits attracting children
from disadvantaged sections, (especially girls, dalits and adivasis) to school,
improving regularity, nutritional benefits, socialization benefits and benefits to
women are some have been highlighted.
Studied by economist show that some these benefits have indeed been
realized. The positive enrollment of disadvantaged children on attendance or
learning effort, on improving nutritional inputs, on improving nutritional
outcomes and so on. The objectives of the programme were to give boost to
universalization of primary education and to impact nutritional intake of
students in primary classes.
By implementing the scheme it is hoped that least 90% class attendance can
be ensured every day and drop out of pupil in the midst of an academic year can
be avoided. The outcome of the scheme is not only to give food to school pupils
by Government but also to make the children eat a common dish at a common
place in their respective school premises and thereby establish cordial
relationship, mutual understanding, healthy friendship and emotional unity
among children.
Permanent or semi- permanent kitchen shed were put up in each and every
school since 1985. In government, aided schools kitchen shed were constructed
by the school managers. In government schools, kitchen sheds were constructed
by government or by the PTA. As the scheme is extended to UP section also, in
most of the schools the storage facility and the kitchen shed is not adequate for
the present need. In most of the schools, the kitchen devices are provided by the
PTA orientation was given to the staff involved in implementation and
monitoring the Mid Day scheme.
School authorities submit utilization of food grains and stock position to the
Assistant Educational Officer every month 163 AEOs in the state are connected
online and data from the sub district can be accessed from the directorate. For
the implementation of the programme in schools, a committee is constituted
with PTA president as the president and Head master as the member secretary.
Other members of the committee are one member from local self government,
two teachers, one member from mother PTA and MPTA ensures the
transparency of the students participating in MDM scheme every day. The
headmaster also keeps stock register.
It is learned that in Tamil Nadu, the teacher are not actively involved in
NMC level planning, implementation and monitoring. It is to be noted that at
school level only when the teacher take active participation, scheme by other
departments can be effectively implemented.
DATA COLLECTION
We constructed our study at Rev.Fr.G.M.V.H.S.S karikode. There is only
secondary section at the school. Teachers and students were very cooperative
with us. And they were ready to give all the necessary details required for us.
We reached the school during their lunch time. Also we had an interactive
section with teacher and the students.
Foods for the students were prepared within the school compound. since in
Kerala Mid Day Meal programme is implemented for students of classes 1 to 7,
here noon foods were only given for students at class 7. We could see that
leader in each class collect the food for entire class. All students use their use
their tiffin boxes/plates from the home to have their lunch. All students are
provided sufficient amount of food and we could see that they are not wasting
food materials. And the food was served in the classroom itself.
On that day students were given rice together with cabbage curry and curd.
Also a variety of curries such as pea, sambar etc. are provided with rice.
Students said that they are getting milk and egg in 2 days every week.
Occasionally meat is also provided. During special occasions like Onam sadhya
was provided for the entire student community. One of the important and
interesting that we could observe there was the bio-farm. Students are
cultivating and maintaining different kinds of vegetables within school
compound. These vegetables are used for cooking. Hence the cost of
implementing Mid-Day Meal programme is reduced and importantly students
were getting healthy food materials that are free from pesticides or insecticides
etc. We could see that feeling of brotherhood, sharing mentality, moral values
etc. are developing between them. Also by providing same kind of food
material for all students feeling of equality is maintained. During the interaction
with the students we are able to find that they are all happy with the mid-Day
Meal programme.
We also have an interaction section with the Head master and the teachers of
the school. They are providing mid day meal for 75 students. For proper
implementation Rs.5/- per head per day is required. And a total of one lakh is
required for one year. Health data of the students are maintained in the school.
Physical growth of the students is observed regularly. From the records
provided by the school authorities we could observe a steady growth of
students.
THE NUTRITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR THE MINIMUM
AMOUNT OF FOOD AND CALORIE CONTENT PER CHILD
PER DAY ARE
Entitlement norm per child per day under mid-day meal
Items Primary(1-5) Upper-primary(6-8)
Calories 450 700
Protein(in grams) 12 20
Rice/wheat(in grams) 100 150
Dal (in grams) 20 30
Vegetable(in grams) 50 75
Oil and fat (in gram) 5 7.5
Body mass Index (BMI) was calculated by using the following equation given
by Garrow(1981).
The weight, height and the BMI were determined for Z scores using Who Global
Database on child growth and malnutrition (WHO, 2007).
The children were classified into normal (-.99 to 1 SD), under nourished
(<-2 SD) and overweight/ obesity(>1SD) categories based on their weight for
age(WAZ) and height for age (HAZ). Similarly, based on their BMI Zseries, the
children were classified into the following categories.
Severely under nourished <-3Sd
Moderately under nourished -2.99 to 2 SD
Mildly under nourished _1.99 to 1SD
Normal -.99 to 1SD
Over-weight/ obese >-1SD
In the case of micro nutrients (Vitamin A, Iron and Folate) tablets and de-warming
medicines, the students is entitled to receive the amount provided for in the school
health programme of the National rural Health Mission.
CONCLUSION
The Mid-Day meal programme is being implemented in the state in a good
manner. This scheme has many potential benefits like attracting students from
disadvantaged sections to school, improving regularity, nutritional benefits, social
benefits, benefits to women, positive effect on enrollment of disadvantaged
children on attendance. Media reports also documents the positive effect of the
programme for women, especially working women and its popularity among
parents, children and teachers. At the same time media reports have also
highlighted several implementation issues including irregularity, corruption,
hygiene, caste discrimination etc. Even though there are some drawbacks in the
implementation of Mid-Day Meal Programme, it can be said that it is one of the
best programme that the government introduced for the improvement of literacy
and health in India.
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
It suggest teachers that they should be aware about the distribution of Mid
Day Meal during lunch hours systematically and properly so that time of
studies is not being wasted.
It supports parents in school for improving the quality of food which is
served in school.
It helps the planners to start new strategies to increase enrollment of studies.
QUESTIONNAIRE
1. How many children are studying here?
2. How many of them are participating in the mid day meal programme
providing in this school?
3. Do you provide variety of food items?
4. What type of vitamins and minerals are included in the mid day meal?
5. Does this school has a vegetable garden? If yes, do you include the
vegetables in it in the mid day meal?
6. How many kitchen staffs are the in this school for preparing the mid day
meal?
7. At what time is the food being given?
8. Do all children sit together while having meals?
9. Do the children have a positive social interaction while eating together?
10.Do you take any preventive measures to avoid food poisoning?
11.How much fund has been allocated for the mid day meal programmee?
12.What is the per head expense for the mid day meal programme?
13.Do you provide awareness classes for children and parents on health and
health related problems?
14.Does everyone participate actively in such awareness classes?
15.What is the attitude of the parents towards this mi day meal programme?
16.Do you provide special care for children who are physically challenged?
17.Do you provide any type of whole grains to adolescent girls?
18.Does this programme help in decreasing wastage and stagnation in this
school?
19.Does the growth rate of the children are checked and recorded periodically?
20.Is there any change in the growth and development of the children?
REFERENCE