.svg){kind=icon}
.svg){kind=icon}
%201.svg){kind=icon}
%201.svg){kind=icon}
.svg){kind=icon}
.svg)
.svg)
Monika Yadav
Monika Yadav is a Ph.D. student in the department of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She has previously worked at NIAS (National Institute of Advanced Studies) Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi studying informal economy, labour and labour organisation, and social welfare schemes in India. Monika received her M.A. in sociology from Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra. Her primary fields of inquiry are economic and political sociology with a special focus on labour movements.
.svg)
Midday meals scheme: Are corruption claims exaggerated?
Soon after Aadhaar was made compulsory for availing midday meals in schools, the government claimed that the move had helped expose several instances of schools siphoning off funds under the scheme by reporting inflated student enrolment. Comparing official data with that from the Indian Human Development Survey, this column shows that corruption in the scheme is less than what is being alleged - and not of the nature that Aadhaar can check.
