Performance Evaluation of Cooked Mid-Day Meal (CMDM). Social Development Intervention

Abstract

The main objectives of the evaluation study were to assess the coverage of children under CMDM, availability of infrastructure for implementation of CMDM, improvement in attendance, retention and nutritional status of children and to assess the extent to which CMDM has succeeded in achieving the objectives. The study has tried to find out the impact of CMDM on teaching and learning activities in schools, involvement of various agencies and constraints in implementation of the scheme at various levels. However, information on nutritional status could not be captured from the available data.