Firth (18th to 27th June 2013) - Mid Day Meal Scheme

JRM TRIPPURA REPORT, 18-26 June, 2013
to engage the SMC’s/ MTA’s , especially with parents from weaker sections where there
were first generation learners.
There is some confusion regarding the committees to be formed in the school. Currently, in
an higher secondary school, there were committees such as SMC, MDM (MTA), SSA
(MTA), SSA (upper primary), RKMSA, and VEC, Each of these committees maintained
separate registers, membership and handled different accounts. However, there were no
common meetings between the committees. The SMC of every school could be made as a
parent body, with various committees formed under it so as to maintain continuity in
community engagement. In addition for each school if there was a common register to
record minutes of the meeting as well as visit records from the members of the SMC, it
would be easier to track Action taken on recommendations/ resolutions.
Other Schools/ centres run by SSA in the State:
Case Study
Education centres(AIE/NRSTC) run by SSA - Mizo-Rihang relief camps in North Tripura.
There are 16 NRSTC’s , priorly run as AIE’s by SSA catering to 2335 children in primary sections
in the Relief camps set up for Mizo Rihang displaced populations since 1997. None of these
centres have the Mid May Meal Scheme.
In the visit of 24 th June, 2013 at Narsingpara camp schools by one member, it was observed that
children had not got textbooks, notebooks for the year. There was no school furniture except for
a blackboards available at the school. The centres were set up in semi pucca buildings but no
fans, light , drinking water facility or toilets were available for this large number of primary school
children.
Narsiingpara Camp, Block B Centre, 24 June, 2013.
It was brought to our notice that in the year
2013-14, under the NRSTC scheme,
refreshment budgets of Rs. 6/- per child had
been allocated. However, There are no hot
cooked meals or food being provided in the
area. Hot cooked meals should be provided
in all these centres/ schools at the earliest.
This may be made possible by creating an
School Management Committee on the lines
of regular schools under the RTE for
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