This project was undertaken to monitor and inquire into features crucial to the apt implementation of the CMMP – like the type of kitchen sheds used for cooking, the kind of service providers given charge of the school meals and their modus operandi, the availability and quality of storage facilities and water, the quality and regularity in the supply of rice, the hold-up in the payment of conversion costs and so on – in selected districts of West Bengal. The findings contained in this report strengthen the argument that the so-called small details of tasks quintessential to the process of serving hot meals to children in school that are more often than not taken for granted must be supervised meticulously to enable children to benefit from their rights to education and a decent life.
