Positive results of MDM have been following:

♤ The MDM scheme is working well with some schools even using donations to supplement this effort and serve better food.

♤ While some schools had good storage facilities like tin boxes, some schools used gunny bags and did not have proper doors for the store rooms.

♤ However, greater involvement of teaching staff for this activity was at the cost of their primary activity of teaching. So teaching staff should be involved only in the supervision of serving of meals to students.

♤ Delivery of foodgrains to the schools should be the responsibility of the PDS dealers under the supervision of panchayats to ensure good quality and adequate quantity.

♤ The midday meal scheme has succeeded in improving nutritional status of school going children and enhanced school attendance enrolment and retention especially for girls and children of disadvantaged groups (SCs and STs) .