The mid-day meal programme, being run in the State, for school children at times makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. In several schools and anganwadis the tendency of providing sub-standard food or serving less food has become common. Government brings these schemes and programmes with good intentions but its implementation is not done properly. The basic aim of the mid-day meal plan is to create interest among the children towards school and study. On the one hand the children get food for one time in a day whereas in this pretext they come to study in schools. The possibility of students presence increases with the help of this programme and the students begin to study. But the present situation speaks otherwise. Serving of sub standard food or less food or non availability of food has negative impact on the children and they may not like to go to schools. This is not a lone case. Other welfare oriented programmes are also meeting the same fate. At administrative level the officials do not make honest efforts and have a bad eye on the government money. It should not come as a surprise that the grain meant for Annapurna yojna is being sold in the market. All this is because transparent working system is not being adopted. Either the monitoring system for effective implementation of these programmes is weak or it is not in existence at all. As per the requirements, the Government should keep a beady eye on its employees. Complaints about misuse of government machinery and materials should be removed at the administrative level itself. Government policies, schemes and programmes should not be left to their fate after introduction.