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- Title
Mid--Day Meal Scheme and Growth of Primary Education: A Case Study of District Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Authors
Hamid, Yawar; Hamid, Asmat
- Abstract
The study attempts to assess the impact of MDMS on attendance, enrolment, drop-out rates, of children in primary schools of district Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. To gather information regarding the impact of the scheme, 100 students, 50 parents, 20 teachers and 20 government officials were randomly interviewed through structured questionnaire schedule. In order to know the impact of the scheme data have been divided in two period's pre Mid-Day meals period (1999-00 to 2003-04) and post Mid-Day meals period (2005-06 to 2008-09) and growth rate of both periods has been calculated through Log-linear model. The results of the study shows that impact of MDMs is impressive in terms of enrolment, attendance and drop-out rates, but the scheme suffers from a number of bottlenecks in the course of its implementation.
- Subjects
JAMMU &; Kashmir (India); INDIA; PRIMARY schools; SCHOOL dropouts; LOG-linear models
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article