Jaganna Gorumudda (Mid-Day Meal Scheme – Dry Ration to the children during Covil-19 Lockdown from 19th March to 23rd April, 2020 – To the children residing in ST/SC/BC Welfare & Other Hostels and studying and having mid-day meal in formal schools

All the District Educational Officers in the State are informed that

the Government in the reference 4th and 6th cited has instructed to

distribute Dry ration including Rice, Eggs and Chikkis as per the daily

entitlement of the child under MDM covering the entire Schools in the

state and therefore the entire Students are entitled for the Dry ration

distribution during the lockdown period. The distribution of the Dry ration

including Rice, Eggs and Chikkis to the Homes of the students, is being

implemented in two phases – Phase I : 19th to 31st March, 2020 and

Phase II : 1st to 23rd April, 2020.

During the Phase I distribution it was noticed that a significant

section of students were not delivered dry ration as they

happened to be hostellers who have been to their native villages as the

hostels they were residing including hostels run by government

departments like the Social Welfare, Tribal Welfare, BC Welfare and other

govt. agencies as well as private hostels were closed during the lockdown.

The matter was discussed at the government level between the

departments of Social welfare and the Education dept. and it was felt that

the ration has to reach the hostellers by way of utilizing the e portability

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feature of the e PDS. However since eggs and chikkis also form part of the

Dry ration, special steps have to be taken by the Officials to distribute the

same to the hostellers at their native villages.

All the DEOs are hearby informed that many hostellers are found to

be natives of villages located by and large within mandals/districts and in

some rare cases, other districts. Therefore the DEOs shall specifically

instruct all the MEOs to

Jaganna Gorumudda (Mid-Day Meal Scheme – Dry Ration to the children during Covil-19 Lockdown from 19th March to 23rd April, 2020 – To the children residing in ST/SC/BC Welfare & Other Hostels and studying and having mid-day meal in formal schools – Instructions issued