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    Millet & School Meals

    This theme explores the role of millet in school meal programs and public distribution systems for food security.

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    In your area, citizens are strongly advocating for the enhanced nutritional value of public food programs 💡. There's a clear emphasis on integrating traditional and locally-sourced nutritious foods, particularly various millets and indigenous pulses, into the Public Distribution System (PDS) and school Mid-Day Meals (MDM). The submissions highlight the importance of these items for children's physical and mental development and to combat malnutrition. Many also suggest including diverse forest products and seasonal leafy greens to further enrich the diets, promoting local agricultural practices and improving public health. 🌾

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets in PDS/MDM
    Integration of Local Pulses
    Utilization of Forest-Based Foods
    Improving Child Nutrition
    Promotion of Traditional Foods

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🍽 📈Implement policies to include a wider variety of indigenous millets (e.g., ragi, kodo, kutki, sorghum) in both the PDS and Mid-Day Meal schemes to enhance nutritional content.
    • 🌳 🍲 💪Explore and integrate locally available pulses (e.g., moong dal, horse gram, arhar) and seasonal nutritious forest produce (e.g., mahua, specific leafy greens, forest yams) into public feeding programs.
    • 💡 📣 🧑Develop awareness campaigns to highlight the nutritional benefits of traditional grains and forest foods, encouraging local consumption and production alongside their inclusion in public schemes.

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    ODISHA, INDIA75 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA14 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA5 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA4 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA4 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA1 voice

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    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

    Nutritious food items like ragi should be introduced in mid-day meals and PDS.

    — Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

    🏛️ ➕ 🌾

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

    — Kusha Mahakud

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    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

    🌾 🤲 💪

    It would be good to provide nutritious food like finger millet in meals.

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

    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

    🏛️ 🍌 🍽️

    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

    🫘 🏫 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌱 🍽️ 💪

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

    — AbhiLL Ipsa

    🧒 🥣 💪

    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 provide millet-based food to school children for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🥣 🏫 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar

    🌾 🤲 🍽️

    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 if foods like ragi, millet, and Sua are given to school children in the mid-day meal two days a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌽 🤝 💪

    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

    🧑‍🎓 🍽️ 💪

    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

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — Padmini Bhoi

    🧑‍🎓 🥣 🌾

    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

    🏫 🌾 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🥣 🧠

    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🌸 🏛️ 🥣

    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

    🌾 📦 💪

    The traditional nutritious food of our community like Kodo, Kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, arhar, sesame, masoor, moong, chana, batla etc. should be included in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals, and the government should promote them.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌾 🧒 💪

    We request the government that if food made from millet is provided in school midday meals, children will remain healthy and strong.

    — NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Ampani, Kalahandi, 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 if the government promoted these most nutritious forest foods like bananas, karadi, and kandhamula in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals.

    — anita khora · Sutipadar, Koraput, 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

    🍠 🏛️ 🍽️

    Forest yam is a nutritious food. So, we request the government to add it to PDS and Midday Meal programs.

    — Sita Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

    🌳 🤲 🍲

    It would be good if forest products like Mahula, Char, and Kendu were provided in mid-day meals through PDS.

    — Priti majhi

    🌾 🥣 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🥣 🚚

    Amla pickle should be included in mid-day meals among local forest food items, and traditional produce like Kodo, Kutki, maize, and pulses like Kurthi, Moong, Chana, and Rahar should be included in PDS.

    — Rupesh Maravi

    👦 🍎 💪

    It would be good if nutritious food is given to school children in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🥦 🏫 💪

    Varieties like the Moringa pod, which is called the king of vegetables, should be included in schools. If it is incorporated into the Mid-Day Meal, it will serve as a nutritious diet.

    — Mohan AHARI · Dabaycha, Udaipur, Rajasthan

    🌾 🤝 💪

    Our native little millet, kodo, maize, sorghum, arhar, urad, kulthi, moong, and soybean should also be included in the government's ration card and in our school's midday meal.

    — Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

    🌽 🥣 💪

    It would be beneficial if food items like corn and millet porridge are provided to school children for two days during the mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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