The decision has drawn strong opposition from organisations representing village heads. Lalit Sharma, state president of the National Panchayati Raj Gram Pradhan Organisation, said elected village heads continue to function as administrators even after the expiry of the tenure of panchayats. He alleged that excluding them from the Mid-Day Meal scheme amounts to curtailing their powers.
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has introduced a major change in the management of the Mid-Day Meal scheme in state -run schools by removing pradhans (village heads) from the operation of the programme and its financial management.
School Management Committees to Oversee Scheme
An order issued by the Directorate General of School Education states that the scheme will now be jointly managed by the chairman of the School Management Committee (SMC), who is a parent of a student, and the headmaster of the school. Earlier, the Mid-Day Meal scheme and its bank account were jointly operated by the village head and the headmaster.
Under the revised arrangement, the SMC chairman and the headmaster will also jointly operate the account for payment of honorarium to cooks and the contingency grant provided for preparing meals under the scheme.
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