Mid-Day Meal Scheme

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Mid- Day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme to enhance the enrollment, attendance and retention and simultaneously improving nutritional quality among school-age children nationwide. The scheme mainly covers the school going children studying in Classes 1st to 8th of government, government aided schools, EGS(Education Guarantee Scheme)/AIE(Alternative and Innovative Education) centres, Special Training Centres , Madarsa and Maktabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

Benefits: -

Increased School Enrolment and attendance.
Reduced dropouts from the school.
Improved Nutritional level among children.

According to amendments made in food norms from 2009 onwards

Item	Primary(Class 1 to 5)	Upper Primary(grade 6 to 8)
Protein(in Grams)	12	20
Calories	450	700
Pulses(in grams)	20	30
Oil and Fat(in grams)	5	7,5
Vegetables(in grams	50	75
Food Grains(in grams)	100	150
Salt and condiments	As per need	As per need

Following norms have been made for engagement of cook-cum-helper :

1 cook- cum-helper for schools up to 25 students.
2 cooks-cum-helpers for schools with 26 to 100 students.
1 additional cook-cum-helper for every addition of upto 100 students.

Cooking cost w.e.f. 01.04.2019
Level	Total cooking cost per child per day(in Rs)	Share of Central-State (in Rs)
	Total cooking cost per child per day(in Rs)	Non-NER States and UTs with Legislature(60:40)		NER-States (90:10) and 3 Himalayan States
	Total cooking cost per child per day(in Rs)	Central	State	Central	State	UTs without Legislature (100%)
Primary(1st to 5th	4.48	.2.69	1.79	4.03	0.45	4.48
Upper Primary(6th to 8th)	6.71	4.03	2.68	6.04	0.67	6.71

Contact Details:

Mid Day Meal Scheme
The Ministry of Human Resource Development
The Department of School Education & Literacy
Shastri Bhawan
New Delhi - 110001
Phone No. : 011-23384253, 011-23387980,
011-23387210, 011-23386024

EdCIL (India) Limited
Technical Support Groups (TSG)
6th Floor, Vijaya Building
17, Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi - 110001
Phone No. : 011-23765621, 011-23765622
Fax.No. 011-2376561

Email ID - @email

Website : mdm.nic.in

State/UTs	Contact Number	Email ID
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	03192-2334939	dired@@email
Andhra Pradesh	9849909612	@email
Arunachal Pradesh	18003453604	@email
Assam	0361-2383832	@email
Bihar	0612-2200123	@email
Chandigarh	0172-5021697, 5077699	@email
Chhattisgarh	077-14283025, 4283036	@email
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0260-263203	@email
Daman and Diu	0260-2230445, 09979561707	@email
Delhi	011-2389002	@email
Goa	0832-2416033	@email
Gujarat	079-232431333	@email
Haryana	0172-653244, 3262073	@email
Himachal Pradesh	18001808007	@email
Jammu and Kashmir	0191-2598189, 2471488, 2561521, 0194-2471488	@email
Jharkhand	0651-2401797	@email
Karnataka	180042520007	@email
Kerala	0471-2324633	@email, secy.gedu@@email
Lakshadweep	09447610341	@email
Madhya Pradesh	155343	@email
Maharashtra	18002339988, 020-26121394	midday.meal@rediffmail@com
Manipur	0385-2411095	@email
Meghalaya	0364-2225356	@email
Mizoram	9436154576	@email
Nagaland	09774305287	@email
Odisha	18003456733	@email
Punjab	0172-6541673, 2600119	dgsepunjab18@gmail[dot]com
Pondicherry	0413-2207202	@email
Rajasthan	0141-2221960	@email
Sikkim	03592-208049	@email
Tamil Nadu	1800 4255 4444	@email
Telangana	---	@email
Tripura	08575550662	@email
Uttar Pradesh	18004190102	@email
Uttarakhand	18001804132	@email
West Bengal	033-23596799	@email

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