Lok Sabha Question No. 1786 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-10
Subject: Wages/Salaries to Cook/Staff under PM POSHAN Scheme
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Parimal Suklabaidya

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO1786 ANSWERED ON- 10.03.2025

## Wages/Salaries to Cook/Staff under PM POSHAN Scheme

†1786. Shri Parimal Suklabaidya:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether the Government has paid the wages/salaries given to the cooks and other staff working in preparation of food under Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman(PM POSHAN) Scheme in Assam;
- (b)  if not, whether the Government has any plans to make payment of such wages/salaries to these workers; and

(c)  whether  there  is  any  provision  for  making  payment  of  wages/salary  to  the  cooks  and workers  working  under  the  scheme  in  other  States,  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State-wise including Assam?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a)  to  (c):  PM  POSHAN  Scheme  is  a  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  implemented  in partnership with the States and UTs. The overall responsibility for smooth functioning of the scheme including providing hot cooked and nutritious meal to the eligible children as well as engagement  of  cook-cum-helpers  (CCHs)  lies  with  the  State  Governments  and  Union Territory  Administrations.  However,  these  CCHs  are  honorary  workers  who  have  come forward for rendering social services. As per guidelines of the Scheme, honorarium of Rs. 1000/- per month for 10 months in a year is prescribed for these CCHs in recognition of their services and the same is being continued. The honorarium expenditure is shared between the Central Government and States and UTs as per the approved sharing pattern, including the State of Assam. The State Governments and UT Administrations have the liberty to enhance the honorarium by providing additional funds from their own resources and some of the State Governments and UT Administrations supplement the honorarium by providing additional funds.  The State of Assam has reported that the honorarium to CCH is paid upto February, 2025 under PM POSHAN Scheme. The details of honorarium provided to CCHs under the PM POSHAN Scheme by the States and UTs including Assam are given at Annexure.

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Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1786  for  10.03.2025  asked  by  Hon'ble  MP  Shri  Parimal  Suklabaidya  regarding Wages/Salaries to Cook/Staff under PM POSHAN Scheme.

## Honorarium of Cook cum Helper per month

|   S.No. | States/UTs        | Cooks-cum-Helpers - Honorarium Per Month (in Rs)   | Additional Honorarium per month to cook-cum- helpers provided by the States/UTs (in Rs)   |
|---------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh    | 3000                                               | 2000                                                                                      |
|       2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|       3 | Assam             | 1500                                               | 500                                                                                       |
|       4 | Bihar             | 1650                                               | 650                                                                                       |
|       5 | Chhattisgarh      | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|       6 | Goa               | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|       7 | Gujarat           | 3250                                               | 2250                                                                                      |
|       8 | Haryana           | 7000                                               | 6000                                                                                      |
|       9 | Himachal Pradesh  | 4500                                               | 3500                                                                                      |
|      10 | Jharkhand         | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|      11 | Karnataka         | 3700                                               | 2700                                                                                      |
|      12 | Kerala            | 12000                                              | 11000                                                                                     |
|      13 | Madhya Pradesh    | 4000                                               | 3000                                                                                      |
|      14 | Maharashtra       | 2500                                               | 1500                                                                                      |
|      15 | Manipur           | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      16 | Meghalaya         | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|      17 | Mizoram           | 1500                                               | 500                                                                                       |
|      18 | Nagaland          | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      19 | Odisha            | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|      20 | Punjab            | 3000                                               | 2000                                                                                      |
|      21 | Rajasthan         | 2003                                               | 1003                                                                                      |
|      22 | Sikkim            | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      23 | Tamil Nadu        | 4100-12500                                         | 3100-11500                                                                                |
|      24 | Telangana         | 3000                                               | 2000                                                                                      |
|      25 | Tripura           | 2500                                               | 1500                                                                                      |
|      26 | Uttar Pradesh     | 2000                                               | 1000                                                                                      |
|      27 | Uttarakhand       | 3000                                               | 2000                                                                                      |
|      28 | West Bengal       | 1500                                               | 500                                                                                       |
|      29 | A&N Islands       | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      30 | Chandigarh        | 4500                                               | 3500                                                                                      |
|      31 | D&N and D &Diu    | 5544                                               | 4544                                                                                      |
|      32 | Delhi             | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      33 | Jammu &Kashmir    | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      34 | Ladakh            | 1000                                               | 0                                                                                         |
|      35 | Lakshadweep       | 18000-20200                                        | 17000-19200                                                                               |
|      36 | Puducherry        | 10000                                              | 9000                                                                                      |