Lok Sabha Question No. 207 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-04
Subject: Salary to MDMS Cooks
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KULAMANI SAMAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 207 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.02.2019

## Salary to MDMS Cooks

## 207. DR. KULAMANI SAMAL:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the cooks under the Mid Day Meal Scheme(MDMS) are paid honorarium/salary and if so, the details of the honorarium/salary being paid to the cooks in all States and Union Territories including Odisha;
- (b) whether the Government has received any request/demand to raise the honorarium being paid to cooks under the MDMS;
- (c)      if so, the details thereof and the decision of the Government in this regard; and
- (d) the steps taken/being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a): Yes, Madam. The Cook-cum-Helpers (CCHs) are paid honorarium under the Mid-Day-Meal Scheme (MDMS). The details of the honorarium being paid to the CCHs in all States and Union Territories including Odisha are given at Annexure.

(b)  to  (d):  Requests  for  increasing  the  honorarium  to  Cook-cum  Helpers  (CCHs)  under  the Scheme have been received. However, it is stated that the CCHs engaged under the Scheme for preparing and serving mid-day meals at schools, are honorary workers who have come forward for  rendering  social  services.  In  recognition  of  their  services,  the  CCHs  are  paid  Rs.1000  per month  for  10  months  in  a  year.  The  honorarium  expenditure  is  shared  between  the  Central Government and States and UTs as per the approved sharing pattern. The State Governments and UT Administrations also supplement the honorarium by providing additional funds from their own resources.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 207 for 04.02.2019 raised by Dr. Kulamani Samal regarding Salary to MDMS Cooks.

Honorarium to Cook-cum-helpers during 2017-18

|   S. No. | State / UT        |   Honorarium per month |
|----------|-------------------|------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                   1000 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                   1000 |
|        3 | Assam             |                   1000 |
|        4 | Bihar             |                   1250 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh      |                   1200 |
|        6 | Goa               |                   1000 |
|        7 | Gujarat           |                   1000 |
|        8 | Haryana           |                   2500 |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh  |                   1500 |
|       10 | Jammu &Kashmir    |                   1000 |
|       11 | Jharkhand         |                   1500 |
|       12 | Karnataka         |                   2700 |
|       13 | Kerala            |                   9000 |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh    |                   1000 |
|       15 | Maharashtra       |                   1000 |
|       16 | Manipur           |                   1000 |
|       17 | Meghalaya         |                   1000 |
|       18 | Mizoram           |                   1500 |
|       19 | Nagaland          |                   1000 |
|       20 | Odisha            |                   1400 |
|       21 | Punjab            |                   1700 |
|       22 | Rajasthan         |                   1200 |
|       23 | Sikkim            |                   1000 |
|       24 | Tamil Nadu        |                   1000 |
|       25 | Telangana         |                   1000 |
|       26 | Tripura           |                   1500 |
|       27 | Uttar Pradesh     |                   1000 |
|       28 | Uttarakhand       |                   2000 |
|       29 | West Bengal       |                   1500 |
|       30 | A&N Islands       |                   1000 |
|       31 | Chandigarh        |                   3000 |
|       32 | D&N Haveli        |                   3946 |
|       33 | Daman &Diu        |                   3642 |
|       34 | Delhi             |                   1000 |
|       35 | Lakshadweep       |                   9500 |
|       36 | Puducherry        |                  19000 |

Source: AWP&B, 2018-19