Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2014, Volume : 4, Issue : 7
First page : ( 1) Last page : ( 12)
Online ISSN : 2249-7315.

Assessment of National ‘Mid-day-Meal’ Program (A Case Study of Haryana)

Dr. Kumar Phool

Assistant Professor, Govt. College for Women, MD University, Rohtak, India

Online published on 5 July, 2014.

Abstract

Education is a vehicle of civilization. Without healthy body, the mind does not develop without good food. It is therefore, become most essential to have a good and nutritious food for our growing children. The national ‘mid-day-meal’ programme which was launched for aimed at multiple objectives for compensating the deficiency of vitamins and minerals for the children living in poverty conditions. As we have observed that the programme has experienced some of pitfalls in its implementation front. These ‘pit falls’ have affected the programme in some of the states like Bihar and some of pockets of eastern U.P. and other parts of India. This paper examines the execution of National mid-day meal programme for school- going children with special reference to Haryana. In order to analysis the levels of satisfaction of this programme, an empirical study has been carried out in some of selected government and schools, situated in six blocks of selected six districts of Haryana. On the basis of findings of this study which includes the results of t-tests which indicates different levels of satisfaction for the respondents, belong to different schools, situated in relatively more and less developed regions of Haryana. The paper also touches various problematic areas of this national programme, which urgently required a considerable reforms so that the programme may render its flaw-less services for achieving its desired results.

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