India - Survey on Level of Living of Tribals: NSS 44th Round, Schedule 29.1, July 1988 - June 1989

it is to be ascertained by the investigator whether the food received by the student member from his/ her educational institution free of cost or at subsidized rate is supplied by government or by any private body/trust. Code 1 will be given in col. (13) if the agency supplying the food is government. In case of private body/trust, it is to be further ascertained whether the body/trust is an organization of some community which provides the food only to the members of the same community. If it is so, the entry in col. (13) will be 2. In all other cases code 9 will be recorded in this column. Care should be taken in making entries in this column. Since cases may not be rare where food supplied by government is distributed to the students through the school authorities or through private organization. There may be cases where although the food is supplied by private agency government pays money to those agencies by way of subsidy to keep down the price of the food packet. In all such cases, food is to be considered as provided by government.