enhance the rice per children providing under MDM Scheme 150 Gms for Primary Schools and 200 gms to UP & High children under MDM Scheme-Not feasibility intiated

he District Educational Officer, Kadapa is drawn to the reference 1st

read above, wherein it has been informed that Sri.Venkata Swamy, Convenor for

AP Teachers Forum for Child Right approached the National Commission for

Protection of Child Right duly requesting to enhance the quantity of rice to the

children of Primary is 150 gms and for UP is 200 gms per day per child under the

scheme instead of providing 100 gms & 150 gms.

In this context, it is informed that, Government of India has fixed the

norms for rice by providing 100 gms for Primary & 150 gms for Upper Primary

under the scheme. Accordingly, the rice is being supplied to all the school

children, increasing the quantity of rice is a policy matter and a decision to be

taken by the Government of India as the scheme is uniformly being implemented

all over the India.

Therefore, the District Educational Officer, Kadapa is requested to inform

Sri.Venkata Swamy, Convenor for AP Teachers Forum for Child Right,

that increasing of allotment of rice per children per day from 100 gms to 150

gms in respect of Primary Schools and from 150 gms to 200 gms in respect of UP

and High School is not possible.