Challenges of MDM

♤ Unhygienically cooked and under-nutritious foods are major issues affecting the scheme. The cooks in government schools do not wear caps or gloves, and are not checked for disease. This could lead to food poisoning.

♤ Some schools do not have adequate infrastructure and have no running water.

♤ The scheme suffers from structural problems, the biggest being the lack of a proper monitoring mechanism and lack of proper accountability.

♤ There is no clear defined structure, and every state runs it functions according to its wish. Besides the huge corruption at all levels is destroying the scheme.

♤ Most of the states, it was observed, did not follow the guidelines of Government of India to deliver foodgrains at the school point by PDS dealer, thereby resulting in the leakage of foodgrains.