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Emphasizes healthy eating and child nutrition through school meals, including specific grains like mandua.
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By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.
By embracing our ancestral foods, language, and traditions, we can nourish our children and strengthen our community's identity and well-being.
Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.
To preserve our health and culture, we advocate for the inclusion of native, nutritious grains in public food programs.
To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi and mandua should be included in school midday meals.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi porridge, mandru, etc. are provided in the school's midday meal.
— gobardhan pangi
Mandua, a traditional food item, should be included in the Mid-Day Meal for the physical and mental development of children in schools.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To provide maximum nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, finger millet will be included in school mid-day meals or traditional foods, followed by our various...
— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha
Ragi, bhadi, and kodra kheer and rabri should be included in schools.
— Kachala Choudhary
Coarse food items, Batti Ravi, Kulthia's Ghugri, etc., should be added in schools and Anganwadi centers.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Nutritious food items like ragi should be introduced in mid-day meals and PDS.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand
Hemant Sha village Nilaji: Forest-based millets and Gurji traditional food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals. This will help in the mental and physical development of children.
— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha
Balanced and nutritious food should be provided in ragi (marwa) flour to promote the mental and physical development of children.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Millet is an indigenous food. If we provide millet to children as a midday meal in schools, their physical and mental wellbeing will improve.
— Padmini Bhoi
If ragi, millet, drumstick leaves, and jute leaves were included in the school midday meal, it would provide more nutritious food to children.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good to provide millet-based food to school children for lunch.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide food like millet (ragi) and pulses to school children twice a week during their midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
It would be good to give school children ragi and millet-based food two days a week in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Millet food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha
It would be good to give traditional food to children in school. Midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide millets like Suan, Mandia, Kangu, Bargudi Badi to school children for three days a week in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
In the mid-day meal, our Anganwadi center should prepare and provide various items using kodo, ragi, and Guruji's food, so that children get their vitamins.
— Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha
Millet should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha
It would be good to provide traditional food to our school children in school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Lobersing (Phuntsokling Tibetan settlement), Gajapati, Odisha
Locally available foods like Pita Kanda, Bara Kali, Kendu etc. have the highest nutritional value. Which traditional foods should be included in school mid-day meals to provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children?
— Praska Gangarao
If children in school are given millet and millet cakes daily as part of their midday meal, they will maintain their nutritional intake.
— Bisendra Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
It would be good to provide food to our children through mid-day meals at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if foods like ragi, millet, and Sua are given to school children in the mid-day meal two days a week.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to give traditional food to children in school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Kodo, kutki, maize porridge, along with horse gram, moong, and rahat dal, should be given in mid-day meals and also included in the PDS.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
It would be good to provide a traditional meal to children in school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha
If children in our school are provided with foods like ragi and jowar in their lunch twice a week, their health will improve.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
As nutritious food, we should include milk and eggs in children's school meals so that children can get complete nutritional food.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
It would be good to provide traditional food to the children of our region in school midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Fruits obtained from the forest are also important for the physical and mental development of children and for providing nutrition; the government should include them as traditional food items in school mid-day meals.
— Anil Pargi · Maliya Dokar, Banswara, Rajasthan
Moong dal is a nutritious food, it should be included in school mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha
Include drumstick and spinach vegetable in the mid-day meal so that children's physical development will occur and they will get nutrition.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Local forest produce such as Kendu, Char, Jamun berries, Sarala leaves, and Mahul contain nutrients. To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, traditional foods like millet porridge should be included in school mid-day meals. During festivals, do not include packaged food and food from markets/shops to offer to guests.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha
If children are given food like Kangu, Jannasua in school, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Moong dal is a nutritious food. It should be included in school mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar
Eggs and milk should be included in mid-day meals so that children's nutritional needs can be met and they are fully included in the food items.
— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
