In order to eliminate corruption in mid-day meal schemes and its operations, Government of Rajasthan has come up with a new SMS based system. With its help, data related to the meals being sent, will be further sent by all respective schools to a toll free number. After this proper monitoring will be done by the state authorities which will check the occurrence of any sort of glitches in the system.
Paras Chand Jain, the District Education Officer gave out a statement that Under this mid-day meal scheme each school has been appointed with an in-charge. He or she then will now have to call on 15544 to notify about the meals been served by them, to the children.
Before this new SMS based system, the meal data was sent on a monthly basis. It was then checked by the District Education Department.
With hopes that this new system will bring in transparency and restrict manipulation of data, new implementation hare being done.
Currently 62.80 lakh students from classes 1-8 are being benefitted from this mid-day meal scheme. With all the cooking being done through NGOs and few govt. departments, a total of 119071 cooks are engaged in working to make this scheme a success.
