Evaluating the National ‘Mid-Day Meal’ Programme with special reference to Haryana

This paper examines the problematic areas of National mid-day meal programme for school- going children of India with special reference to Haryana. It also includes various problematic areas of this national multi-objective programme. The study also touches the ‘pit falls’ of the programme which lie with implementation fronts. In order to analysis the levels of satisfaction of this programme, an empirical study has been carried out in some of selected government and schools, situated in six blocks of selected six districts of Haryana. On the basis of findings of this study which includes the results of t-tests which indicates different levels of satisfaction for the respondents, belong to different schools, situated in relatively more and less developed regions of Haryana. The paper also touches various problematic areas of this national programme, which urgently required adequate reforms so that the programme may render its flaw-less services for achieving its desired results.