Millet & Healthy Grains

Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

It would be good to provide millet-based food to school children for lunch.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

Millet is a nutritious and protein-rich food. We can provide millet to children in school midday meals because it is nutritious.

— Padmini Bhoi

Hard grains like millet are fortified foods that should be included.

— Sunita Kumari

Millet should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

Local forest produce, specifically Madia (finger millet), contains maximum nutrients and vitamins, which are beneficial for mental and physical health. The state government will include it in the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) program in the coming days.

— Santosh Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha

Ragi gruel, in its natural form, is pure and nutritious for the body. It would be beneficial if everyone consumed ragi gruel with their midday meal and thereby received such nutritious food.

— Mishra · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

It would be good if things like turmeric, beleric myrobalan, flaxseed, pearl millet, and finger millet are given.

— Mamata Panigrahi

Our traditional nutritious food like kodo, kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, etc., as khichdi and dalia should be given in mid-day meals, and it would be great if the government also includes such grains in PDS.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Including millet, foxtail millet, and sorghum twice a week in the school's midday meal would keep health good.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

Request to the government: It would be good if food prepared from ragi/millet is provided in PDS midday meals.

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

Among forest products, Mahua is also a nutritious food. It would be good if the government utilizes this Mahua in various ways and provides it in school mid-day meals.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

Mahua flowers and other foods obtained from the forest are very nutritious. Therefore, it is appropriate to include these foods in PDS or mid-day meals.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

If food items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

It would be good if all the nutritious foods found in the forest such as Lepherasā, Kachar sāg, Gukurijīv sāg, Kaḍī, Heḍuā, Chhati, Ruguḍā are added to the Mid-Day Meal PDS.

— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha

Millet is our traditional food, and it would be good if millet were included in school midday meals.

— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha

It would be good to provide millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

The government should include millet in PDS or mid-day meals.

— Kusha Mahakud

It would be good to provide food like millet (ragi) and pulses to school children twice a week during their midday meal.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

The aquatic plants, tubers, mushrooms, and all other forest products found in the forest are nutritious food. Therefore, if we can add this food to PDS and school mid-day meals, it would be very good.

— Sushama Digal · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

It would be good if the government provided highly nutritious foods like banana, sweet potato, yam, and sago through PDS in mid-day meals.

— anita khora · Sutipadar, Koraput, Odisha

If forest foods like Char, Mahua, Kendu, Mango, and Jam are added to PDS and mid-day meals, consumers will get nutritious food.

— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, 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

Millet and horse gram should be included in the midday meal.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

Kodo, kutki, maize, and sorghum porridge, and also indigenous pulses, should be included in the midday meal, and it would be very good if the government promotes them.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Moong dal is a nutritious food, it should be included in school mid-day meals.

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

In our school, in the mid-day meal that is provided, if we bring a beneficial extract from our forest and add those seeds, I will prepare it so that it contains many vitamin-rich things, and eating that would be very good.

— Parikshit Majhi

The government should promote the most nutritious foods easily available in our region, such as kodo, kutki, maize, along with tur dal, gram, and horse gram lentils, and include them in PDS and mid-day meals.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

The most nutritious locally available moong dal and urad dal should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

— AbhiLL Ipsa