{"id":819,"date":"2007-10-22T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=819"},"modified":"2007-10-22T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:08:22","slug":"pib-mid-day-meal-expanded-to-class-vi-viii-172-blocks-in-orissa-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/819","title":{"rendered":"PIB: Mid day meal expanded to Class VI-VIII (172 blocks in Orissa included)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is from the PIB press release http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=32088<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Government of India has now extended <\/span>the Mid Day Meal Scheme to the Upper Primary Stage of Education (classes VI to VIII) in 3479 Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) in 2007-08 and areas across the country from 2008-09. The programme has been extended as per State-wise list of EBBs attached in Annexure- A<\/u><\/strong><\/a>. <\/span>The extension to the Upper Primary Stage in EBBs has already become effective from <\/span>October 01, 2007. <\/span><\/strong>About 1.7 crore children at upper primary will be covered. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Government of India has released the Central assistance to the respective States for extension of Mid-Day Meal programme to upper primary stage. A sum of Rs.7324 Crores was provided in the Budget 2007-08 for the MDM Programme, representing 37% increase over the budget provision for 2006-07. The Expenditure as on 30-09-2007 is Rs.2231.12 Crores (30% of BE) including Rs. 422.94 crores towards cooking cost for upper primary stage. In addition, 3,22,785 MTs of food grain has been allocated to States\/UTs for extension of coverage to upper primary stage (Annexure-B<\/u><\/a>).<\/strong> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Calorific value of the mid day meal has been fixed for upper primary at 700 calories and 20 grams of protein. Foodgrains @ 150 grams per child\/ school day for the upper primary stage would be provided. <\/o:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The cooking cost of mid day meal for upper primary stage at Rs 2.50 per child\/school day with <\/span>the NER States <\/span>contribution being a minimum of Rs 0.20 per child\/school day and for all other States and UTs, the State contribution being <\/span>Rs 0.50 per child\/school day. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Transport Subsidy has been enhanced for eleven Special Category States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir & Uttarakhand) from Rs. 100 per quintal to Rs. 125 per quintal. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Central assistance to construct kitchen-cum-store in upper primary schools would be provided @ Rs 60,000 per unit, as in the case of primary stage besides, Central assistance for kitchen devices to upper primary schools would be @ Rs 5,000 per school as in the case of primary stage.<\/o:p><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The name of Scheme has been changed from \u2018National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education\u2019 to \u2018National Programme of Mid Day Meals in Schools\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following is from the PIB press release http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=32088. The Government of India has now extended the Mid Day Meal Scheme to the Upper Primary Stage of Education (classes VI to VIII) in 3479 Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) in 2007-08 and areas across the country from 2008-09. The programme has been extended as per State-wise list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}