Abstract: The study attempts to assess the impact of MDMS as perceived by teachers & students on attendance, enrolment, drop-out rates, literacy, quality of meal being served & problems associated with scheme, of children in the  schools of district Anantnag and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir. To gather information regarding the impact of the scheme, 75 students & 50 teachers were randomly interviewed through structured questionnaire schedule. In order to know the impact of the scheme data have been tabulated and percentage techniques were employed for interpretation. The results of the study shows that impact of MDMs is impressive in terms of enrolment, attendance and drop-out rates, literacy but the scheme suffers from a number of bottlenecks in the course of its implementation as well.