As per rules of the Mid-day Meal scheme

As per rules of the Mid-day Meal scheme, a school has to supply prepared food for at least 20 days a month but the target could not be met as they could not get rice regularly.

At some point of time, the supply was made for three to four months together, he went on to reveal.

Owing to the irregularity in the supply of rice, cooks appointed for preparation of food got their monthly honorariums without discharging their duties.
Even though, food was not supplied to the students, the cooks received the amount sanctioned for buying firewood and other food items, which is ' 50 a day.

Local MLAs sometimes intervened in appointing cooks to the schools, another headmaster disclosed.
When Hueiyen Lanpao asked an official of the ZEO office, he said that the rice under the scheme is being supplied to the schools after submitting indents to the DC concerned who in turn furnish them to the FCI authority.

They do not measure the weight of each rice bag at the time of offloading at the ZEO godown.
In some instances, each bag weighed less than 50 kg due to rupture of gunny bags.

There is no question of deducting rice by the officials of the ZEO, he said alleging that the teachers often lodged complaints after they had siphoned off the rice before depositing it at their schools.

Apart from this, most headmasters are not sincere to put up the exact number of students in their respective schools.
For example, when only around 20 students were enrolled in some schools, they put the number students over 100 in order to get more rice.

Besides this, most of the headmasters do not maintain the stock of the rice left over each month even though the left over rice which resulted from the absence of students are to be kept in their stock and to submit a detail report to the ZEO, the official added.