Vide Notification dated 20.12.04 read with Notification dated 31.12.04, the Department of School Education and Literacy has set up a National Level Steering cum Monitoring Committee (NSMC) to oversee the implementation of the programme. The NSMC is mandated to:

1. Guide the various implementation agencies
2. Monitor programme implementation, assess its impact, and take corrective steps
3. Take action on reports of independent monitoring/evaluation agencies
4. Effect coordination and convergence among concerned departments, agencies (e.g. FCI), and schemes, and
5. Mobilize community support and promoting public private partnership for the programme. Under NP-NSPE, 2006, the NSMC will also, in addition, be expected to perform the following functions:
   1. Provide policy advice to Central and State Governments, and
   2. Identify voluntary agencies and other appropriate institutions to undertake training, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation and research connected with the programme at the national level.

Agenda, presentation and minutes of the NSMC Meetings are as under :-