Mid-Day Meal Rankings Sparks Controversy; Experts Question It's Authenticity

A senior state official from south India said, "Reference of ranking is on the quarterly performance whereas even the Planning Commission does mid-term analysis. Ideal thing would have been to rank states on the basis of half-yearly performance," reports TOI.

Dipa Sinha, earlier with the office of the commissioner to the Supreme Court on right to food and now an independent researcher, said, "Parameters are faulty. How can you judge a state on the basis of utilization of funds, cooking cost and lifting of grains in one quarter. What happens to the fund put by states from their own budget?"

Sinha also points out on how Tamil Nadu shell out around 900 crore every year from the state’s budget and much more than the amount it received from the central government. In states like Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Rajasthan, they bore extra expenditure on supplementary food like eggs and fruits.

For instance cooks in Tamil Nadu are state government employees unlike the rest of the country where they are paid a trivial sum of 1,000 per month.

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