Jagananna Gonumudda (PM POSHAN) Scheme – Adverse news items on PM POSHAN / TMF – Certain instructions

  Jagananna Gonumudda (PM POSHAN) Scheme – Adverse news items on PM POSHAN / TMF – Certain instructions 

Cir.No.ESE02-27021/92/2021-MDM-CSE Dated: 15.12.2021 

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: School Education – Jagananna Gonumudda (PM POSHAN) Scheme – Certain
instructions issued for adverse news items on PM POSHAN / TMF –
Regarding

Immediate attention of the Regional Joint Directors
of School. Education and District Educational Officers is drawn to the
adverse news items regarding Mid Day Meal in various news papers,
electronic media and Social media. When verified by the inspecting
officers, some are false news and many are genuine news.

The
Regional Joint Directors of School Education and District Educational
Officers are well aware that jagananna Gorumudda Scheme is a flagship
programme of the Government of Andhra Pradesh and

Government of
India. You are well aware that the programme is daily run programme and
the meals are meant for improvement in physical and mental health of the
children. Any issue in the quality of meals or poisoning of the food
affect the children drastically including putting their lives into
risks,

The adverse news items from different districts are related to

1. Non supply of the Eggs in time.

2. Non supply of Chikkies in time. 

3.
Carelessness on the part of HMS/ cooks to verify the damaged eggs while
receiving from the suppliers it self and cooking without verification
of the eggs quality before hand. This results in vomiting and health
issues to some of the students 

4. Negligence the part of
HMS/ cooks to verify the chikkies while receiving from the suppliers
itself and giving to children without verification of the quality. 

5.
Not providing meals in few schools due to certain issues includingi
payment issues / rivalry among cooks/parent committee members.

6.
Negligence the part of HMS/ cooks to verify the hygiene of the food and
alertness of the cooks to take care so as to avoid falling of certain
things like lizards/inserts 

7. Non uploading of bills related to cooking costs, honorarium to the cooks in time.

8. Non uploading of bills related to rice/eggs/chikkies in time.

9. Negligence of the storage rooms and storage of the materials like rice, eggs etc…

10. Usage of bad quality ingredients, vegetables, oils by the cooks.

The
Regional Joint Directors of School Education and District Educational
Officers are also well aware that the Hon’ble Chief Minister gives huge
importance to the Jagananna Gorumudda Scheme as it gives nutritional
support to 42 lakhs children and has direct impact not only on i their
physical and mental health but also the learning outcomes. Any deviation
in the implementation of the programme will have direct impact on the
children.

The Regional Joint Directors of School Education and
District Educational Officers are fully aware that many guidelines on
different aspects and components associated with the scheme are given
regularly by the Government/State office and a detailed SOP also has
been printed and circulated.

For example, the Standard Operating
Procedure related to maintaining the quality of eggs from receipt to
cooking to the distribution to the chidren has been detailed in page
number 27 and 28 of the SOP for Jagananna Gorumudda. However, the HMs
and cooks neglect this importance aspect which results in food poisoning
cases

The main reasons for the issues/adverse news items are

1. Due to negligence in following the SOP

2.
Moreover, the correspondence related to guidelines and other aspects of
the scheme given by the state office is not communicated properly to
the field levels. 

3. It is also learned that the MDM
section in the district office lacks superintendents/5r. Assistants/jr
Assistants/Data Entry Operators either due to vacancy or by deputing
them to other sections

4. In some districts, the AD MDM has
been given additional charge of Deputy Educational Officers in certain
Divisions, even though the Commissioner School Education has given
instructions to not to give additional charges to the AD MDM, in view of
the work load of the scheme as well the priority of the scheme. 

5.
The Regional Joint Directors of School Education District Educational
Officers / Assistant Directors (MDM)/ Mandal Educational Officers seldom
check the dashboard, even though the dashboard is meant for making the
monitoring of the scheme easy for them.

Hence, the
Regional joint Directors of School Education / District Educational
Officers are here by instructed to note that the adverse news items are
viewed very seriously by the Government and by the CMO and are closely
monitored. Hence, they are instructed to communicate all the
correspondence / guidelines / instructions / SOP / Video tutorials etc.,
to reach upto the HMs/Cooks levels through online and offline modes /
meetings. They are requested to make random visits to schools for
analysing the issues and addressing suitable solutions for them..

In
this regard a whatsapp number has been put in to service to receive the
complaints/suggestions / feedback from the students, parents and
general public as per the instructions of the Hon’ble Chief Minister.
The whatsapp number (7833888555) has to be widely displayed in the
schools, offices and in public places for receiving
complaints/suggestions / feedback well in advance so as to take
immediate remedial actions. The poster format for the t display of the
number is enclosed here with

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