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Inspired by the way Mayawati government, the Central
government has decided to replicate the Uttar Pradesh
model to track mid-day meal scheme to cross-check if
children get their hot meal in schools. The HRD ministry
has decided to have a nation-wide short messaging service
(SMS) alert system to
monitor the Rs 10,000
crore mid-day mealscheme. Under the
scheme, the school
children till upper primary
level are provided hot
cooked meal once a day.
Mayawati government in UP was the first to introduce a software based
SMS system, wherein the school principal and a few parents received
an automatic message the day less than 50 percent or a large number
of school children were served mid-day meal.
The SMS was generated on basis of information on mid-day meal feed by teacher in-charge of the
scheme into an online monitoring system. The principal was required to give an explanation through
SMS and parents to verify the claim.
A senior HRD ministry official said the national system will be improvement of the UP model and nomoney will be charged from parents for sending an SMS system to the national server. A successful pilot
has been implemented in Bihar and the ministry expects to cover 12 lakh schools across India by June
this year.
Every school will have to feed information regarding the mid-day meal served to children every day and
the type of food. They will be required to provide details about the quantity of food-grains they received
and the amount used.
The entire information generated would be in public domain on the new mid-day meal website. It will
help in curbing corruption and ensure that children get good quality food, HRD minister Kapil Sibal said,
after launching the website on which the mid-day meal scheme information will be available.
The UPA government has been critical of UP government over implementation of Central schemes and
had detected irregularities in National Rural Health Mission and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme. But, the government had no problem in adopting a UPs innovation.
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Mayawati has done many good things to cheer for UP People in her full five term. Few are like as below:
1. No Gunda gardi at all, No Regional netagiri....at all2. Recruitment process got transperent like in teacher recruitment, Police recruitment etc. No nepotism, favourism,
castism or no bribe at all
3. Before 2007 UPs GDP was 4.5....Now UP's GDP is aprox 7.5/8 in line with National GDP..very good progress
4. Agricultural production was at #1...i.e in good position ...Sugar prices for farmers much higher than National
5. Infrastructure developments, Electrification improved much, Education quality improved in UP. She introduced
English in Gvt Schools from Basic classes
6. Last but not least She did work for all sections of society...i mean for Sarv Jan
There are many more..endless good work done by Mayawati. First realise...Be a nutral observer...then you will come
to know that really Mayawati did much better then previous governments. Hope UP will continue such progress in
comming years.
Very good information about this goverment. I like most the job process of this goverment.
Mayawati for Prime Minister post. She is a trail blazer and will introduce innovative, unique and fool proof
technologies to fight, not only corruption, but every aspect of India's concern. Please, I request everyone voting in
upcoming elections, to vote for her. She is GREAT. Next Prime Minister of India. Congress, BJP and others have no
imagination or idea as to how they should move India forward. They are vacouos and ignorant. Rahul Gandhi only
visits the poor at times of election. For the rest of his term, he is travelling to holiday spot along with Montek
and other members of Congress party. Mired in miasma of their apathy and coruption, they have run away from
India's poor to only pursue their own greedy agenda's. Mayawati will determindely resolve issues that India's poor
are longing for.
Innovative step to stop corruption
nice work by mayawati, congrats :)..Plz implement this system in other fields too
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Anika Gupta, Hindustan TimesEmail Author
November 01, 2010
First Published: 01:29 IST(1/11/2010)
Last Updated: 03:07 IST(23/11/2010)
Yes, free lunchesIt's noon on a monsoon day in Chirodi, a farming village in Uttar Pradesh (UP), when principal
Dilavar Hussain's phone rings.
On the other end of the line, a pre-recorded voice asks him how many mid-day meals his school
prepared today. He punches in the number and hangs up. The call takes 30 seconds.
Since June 1, more than 100,000 government school principals receive this call every day, as part of
a state technology pilot programme intended to track the government's flagship social sector
programme, the Cooked Mid-Day Meals Scheme (MDM).
The world's biggest school lunch programme, MDM, guarantees a hot cooked lunch to every student
in a government primary school.
Since it started in 2002, MDM has faced harsh criticism from scholars for having no oversight
mechanism. A May 2010 report by the Planning Commission of India found that consistent
monitoring of the scheme was "virtually nonexistent." Some NGOs say diversion of food and money
runs as high as 25%.
The new technology pilot features a programme that calls every UP school principal every day and
asks how many meals the school prepared. Officials can log into a website and view the data.
Although the programme can't fix all MDM's problems, officials say it has already made a difference
"Six months ago, if you had asked how many meals were being prepared, no one would have been
able to tell you," says Amod Kumar, former director general of UP's Mid-Day Meals Authority.
On an average, officials have found that nearly 20% of UP schools aren't preparing any meals, said
sources who spoke anonymously.
For Hussain's students - he describes them as the poorest of the poor - the promise of a hot meal is
one of the main reasons they come to school.
A PROGRAM IN NEED OF FIXING
The UP government had been looking for a digital monitoring scheme for Mid-Day Meals for
several years, with no luck.
"We thought about SMS, we thought about toll-free SMS," says Kumar, who became director-
general of UP's Mid-Day Meals in December 2009.
"When we visited villages, there were some issues with supply chain management and flow of funds
and grains," he says.
A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (IIT-K), Kumar had earlier helped set up
an e-Governance scheme that allowed rural residents to digitally track applications.
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Rohit Gupta and Kumar's engineers created a special technology that could feed hundreds of phone
lines into an IVR program and then into the Internet.
A separate team of software engineers created a website that could display data from these online
databases.
"The database architecture is very unique," says Rohit Gupta, director of Technosys, the company
that helped design the web site.
The UP government organised a call centre to take teachers' queries, and government workers visited
each of the state's 822 blocks to train principals to respond to the daily call. The workers also
gathered nearly 150,000 mobile phone numbers.
The pilot went live in June, two months after the contract was signed, almost lightning-fast by the
standards of any government.
"There was negligible resistance," says Kumar. "It was a pleasant surprise."
TEACHERS MAKE SUGGESTIONS
The UP government's call centre receives nearly 1,500 calls a day from teachers, many with
suggestions to improve the programme.
"An option that allows us to indicate the quality of the meal is necessary," says Vinita Puri, principal
of Prathnik Vidyalaya Mevala Bhatti-2, also in Chirodi.
Puri keeps the week's menu printed on a blackboard by her desk, so that parents know what their
children are entitled to. She says she knows students who enjoy the meals so much they sometimes
save some to take home and eat later.
NOT YET A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
Scholars are waiting to see administrative change.
"You have the number of meals being reported, but what you do with that number is also important,"
says Reetika Khera, an economist and activist who has studied the Mid Day Meal Scheme.
"You need to back that with political will and establish a follow-up measure."
Kumar says data about noncompliance goes to block presidents, who are already tightening the
screws on village chiefs who abscond with funds.
In future, he says, the programme can be expanded to broadcast the number of meals being prepared
to every member of a village, providing multiple layers of oversight and transparency.
Puri insists that the programme allows a principal a way to work around a corrupt village council or
village chief.
"Teaching is a government job," she says, surveying her students as they leave school at the end of
the day.
"This programme provides us a direct link with the head office."
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Centre to adopt IVRS for monitoring MDM scheme
Written by Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Monday, 24 October 2011 22:03
Taking a cue from the success in implementation of the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme in Uttar
Pradesh, the Union Government has agreed to adopt the Interactive Voice Response System
(IVRS) as designed by the state government to monitor MDM scheme.
"The IVRS is a real hit. It has introduced transparency in distribution of MDM among students in
state-run schools. Impressed by its success the Union Government is contemplating to
introduce the same to monitor different schemes," a government spokesman said in a Press
release issued here on Monday.
The IVRS' success has helped Uttar Pradesh to bag the first prize in monitoring of the MDM as
well in the school book distribution schemes.
The prize was sponsored by Department of IT, Government of India and Digital Empowerment
Foundation.
To know the ground realities in distribution of mid-day meal and text books among students of
state-run schools, the Uttar Pradesh government had introduced IVRS under which district
magistrates and Basic Shiksha Adhikaris are informed about the progress of these twoschemes through an automated SMS on a daily basis.
"Under this system principals or Shiksha Mitras get a call at a fixed time from a pre-designated
number. They are asked to key in the number of students present or whether MDM was
distributed in the particular day. Within few minutes the central server gets complete picture of
students who had the mid-day meal on the particular day," a government spokesman said.
"This also helps in evaluating implementation of MDM. The same goes with distribution of
school books. Now, DMs or commissioners know in how many schools mid-day meal was not
cooked on a particular day or how many schools have not received books," he said.
The spokesman said though MDM is a Central government scheme, the IVRS project was not
financed by the Union Government. "It is purely a state government's initiative," he said.
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Centre to adopt IVRS for monitoring MDM scheme
Written by Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Monday, 24 October 2011 22:03
The MDM scheme is in operation in 1,53,000 government schools in which over 2.15 crore
children get nutritious food every day.
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Lucknow, October 28
A simple call on the cell phone of the
school teacher across the 1.53 lakh
primary schools in Uttar Pradesh is
helping monitor the states mid-day meal
programme.
This innovative monitoring practicedeveloped by the states Mid-Day Meal
Authority (MDMA) has won the nBillionth
Award South Asia 2011. It will now be
put to use to monitor a range of other
public welfare schemes in the state as well.
The state-of-the-art Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) based Daily
Monitoring System is an automated MIS (Management Information System). In the
case of mid-day meal (MDM) it makes available on a daily basis data of children
availing MDM in schools across the state.
The system conceived on the basis of an interface between computers and mobile
phones helps the MDMA monitor the mammoth task of tracking the programme inthe states 1.53 lakh primary schools catering to 2.15 crore children.
Using an out-bound dialing solution calls are placed on the cell phones of either the
headmaster, teacher or assistant teacher (shiksha mitra) from a virtual number
using PRI lines. Through simply pressing keys on their cell phone the teacher gives
information of the exact number of students who had eaten MDM on that particular
day. In case of no MDM on that particular day 0 is typed.
According to Director MDM Parthasarthi Sen Sharma, the chances of the teachers
giving false information are almost nil. Firstly because as they are not responsible
for providing the MDM they stand to gain nothing by feeding misleading data.
Secondly, the information is randomly cross checked with other teachers and the
fear of the information provided being counter-checked works at a deterrent, he
said.
To make the system foolproof a representative of the School Management
Committee would also be included in the exercise in the near future, informed Sen
Sharma.
The data is then fed into a centralised server which immediately compiles it to
provide information of the exact number of students who had eaten MDM on that
particular day in a certain district or division and those schools who did not supply
free meals. The information is available online to all key decision makers in the
district and division.
The recipient of the mBillionth Award South Asia 2011 this project providesschoolwise information access on real time basis. The mBillionth Award given jointly
by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Digital
Empowerment Foundation is a dedicated platform to explore the latent potential of
mobile and telecom sector across eight countries in South Asia.
It is designed as an annual South Asias leading mobile and telecom award platform
leading to larger regional Mobile Congress in media and policy advocacy.
Transmission of real time data in this manner leaves no scope for data manipulation
or distortion and availability of exception reports improves efficacy and
transparency of the system.
Recently the IVRS system was put to use by the Department of Primary Educationto track the distribution of free text books to students under the Sarv Shiksha
Abhiyaan.
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Moni to r ing M id-day Meal Schem e th r ou gh Cloud Te lephony
N a m e : Amod KumarPub l i s h Da te : 01 February 2011Des i gna t i on & Or gan i s a t i on : Amod Kumar
Loc a t i on :
Amod KumarProject Director - MNH, IntraHealth
Amod Kumar, an Indian Administrative Services officer ofthe 1995 . He has held several positions at UP government,including Special Secretary, Basic Education & DirectorMid-day-Meal, Special Secretary, Revenue, SpecialSecretary, I.T. (Information Technology). On a few yearsleave, currently, he is working on the capacity of ProjectDirector, Maternal and Newborn Health Project -ManthanProject-IntraHealth. Pratap Vikram Singh finds out detailsof the project.
Can you throw light on the ICT systems deployed formonitoring of mid-day meal scheme in UP, while yourassociation with the State Mid-Day Meal Authority?
During my association with the mid-day meal authority, we developed a system to monitorthe mid day meal scheme with the help of cloud telephony. For its monitoring in all the 1.5lakh schools in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the department gives IVRS calls to all the teachersthrough which the teachers are asked for the number of students who took meals on thatparticular day. Almost1800 calls are made parallely. By evening the department gets data for
all the schools.
Initially, the teachers are informed that the call is being made on behalf of the mid-day mealauthority. It asks the teacher to punch in the number of students who were served the mealthat day. If the teacher punches in zero, he is given four reasons and told to punch in theappropriate number. The reasons are: 1.Cook was absent; 2. Non availability of raw materialfor cooking; 3. Transportation problems; and 4. Other reason. The responses aresimultaneously recorded on the website of the mid-day meal authority.
The BSAs can go to website, choose respective blocks/district and check the daily mealreports. All this is done in Hindi language. Now, the Union Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment is deliberating on scaling up the monitoring project across all states and UTs.
Could you please elaborate on the work being done in the health sector in the state of Uttar Pradesh byIntraHealth?
Manthan Project is a $4 million initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It aims to improve the healthof mothers and newborns in northern India. Among other Indian states, Uttar Pradesh has the highest percentage ofmaternal and neonatal deaths in India. With a duration of four-years, this project will work with the Uttar Pradesh stategovernment to identify proven, effective mother and neonatal health (MNH) interventions, advocate at district, state, andnational levels to promote the adoption and scale-up of these interventions, and expand health care services to moremothers and newborns.
We see ICT as a vital tool for efficient delivery of health care services. Although leveraging ICT is still at a conceptualstage, we would be using ICT in three four ways.
To reach to the ultimate client through SMS, education on remedies and behavioural change.
Direct IVRS calls giving reminders about the precautions and timely intake of medicines
To educate and remind the Asha workers (the health care workers in the state) through the use of multimedia-smart
phones, which is now available at a much cheaper price. We can store a video on educating the workers and aidingthem in better counseling.
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Submitted By Dev endr a S Ingh , T hu r s day , Augus t 11 , 2011
can i get the email id of mr. amod kumar....Read More
Submitted By Moham mad W aheed , Thu r s day , Feb r ua r y 24 , 2011First of all congratulation for MrA.Kumar new assignm ent.We have seen in SItaurHow well worked on "Lokvani", Mid day meal is better in
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