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    School & Family Nutrition

    This theme focuses on the critical role of nutrition, healthy food, and school meals for the well-being of children and maternal health.

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    In your area, there is a strong and consistent public call to significantly enhance the nutritional content of food provided through school midday meals and the Public Distribution System (PDS) 🍎. Citizens are actively proposing the integration of traditional and local nutrient-rich foods, including various millets (such as ragi, kodo, and foxtail millet) and indigenous forest produce like Mahua, Char, and Kendu. These proactive suggestions aim to address nutritional deficiencies, promote overall well-being, and support the physical and mental development of children and pregnant mothers, offering practical pathways to diversify and improve existing food programs 💡🥗.

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets in Meals
    Utilization of Local Forest Produce
    Enhancing School Midday Meals
    Nutritional Improvement for Children and Mothers
    Diversification of PDS Offerings

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🍽 📈Develop and implement a standardized program for the consistent inclusion of diverse millets (e.g., ragi, kodo, foxtail millet) in school midday meals, while also assessing their feasibility for PDS distribution.
    • 🌳 🍲 🌱Establish a framework for the safe and sustainable procurement and incorporation of local, vitamin-rich forest produce (e.g., Mahua, Kendu, Char, traditional leafy greens) into school nutrition programs.
    • 🔬 🍎 💪Conduct targeted nutritional assessments in schools and communities to identify specific micronutrient gaps, guiding the strategic addition of pulses, fruits, and vegetables to existing meal plans.

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    👧 🌾 💪

    If school children are given foods like ragi, foxtail millet, pearl millet, and kodo millet three days a week, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, 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

    🍎 👨‍👩‍👧 💪

    Yes, if we make Mahula and Ladoo and give them to the school children and pregnant mothers, they will get vitamins from eating that.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 👍

    If children are given food like Kangu, Jannasua in school, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

    If food like ragi, suva, and millet is given to school children for two days a week in their mid-day meal, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍎 💪 🧑‍🎓

    Mahul, char, and sargi have a lot of vitamins. Our bodies used to stay healthy by eating them. It would be good if the government provides food to students.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

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    🧑‍🍳 🍲 💪

    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

    🌾 🥣 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🏫 💪

    Providing millet ladoo and janna mua three times a week in the school's midday meal will keep health good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧑‍🎓 🍽️ 💪

    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

    🍬 👨‍👩‍👧 💪

    Giving Mahul laddu to school children, pregnant women, and lactating women will be beneficial as it contains vitamins.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

    👧 🥣 💪

    If school children are given boiled and fried Mahul, and Kaku mixed in water to eat, it contains vitamins.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🥬 🏫 💪

    If leafy greens like Kuilesh saag, Mudi saag, and Munga saag are provided in the mid-day meal at school, students will be able to get some nutritious food.

    — Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, 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

    🌾 🤲 💪

    Wheat, moong, millet, and corn – all these foods should be given because they contain a large amount of vitamins.

    — Anirudha Marai · Sambalpur, Odisha

    🌰 🏫 💪

    If the nutritious 'char laddoo' made from Mahua found in our forests is included in the school's mid-day meal, children will be nourished.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🧒 🍎 💪

    School children will have good health if nutritious food is provided in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🥣 💪

    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 millets like Suan, Mandia, Kangu, Bargudi Badi to school children for three days a week in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 👧 💪

    Giving millet and ragi-based food to school children twice a week will keep them healthy.

    — 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

    🧒 🌾 💪

    If children are given millet and tribal food two days a week in school midday meals, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · 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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    👧 🌾 💪

    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

    🍎 🧒 💪

    Mahua fruit/extract contains vitamins. It would be beneficial if given to school children to eat and if one also consumes it.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🥕 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 💪

    If local food is provided to school children in their mid-day meal, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, 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

    🧒 🌿 💪

    It would be good if food prepared with Kendu, Amla, Char, and Mahul is given to school children.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌳 🏫 💪

    Including food items like mahua ladoo made from mahua found in our forests in the school's midday meal can provide nutritious food to children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🧒 🌾 💪

    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

    🏫 🍎 💪

    If food made from Mahua is given in schools, children will be able to get nutritious food.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌰 🎒 💪

    If forest-based foods like Mahua, Chironji, and Kendu were prepared and given to our school children in their Mid-Day Meal, it would be beneficial.

    — Priti majhi

    🍲 🧒 💪

    Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌿 🏫 🍎

    Including Mahula laddus made from Mahula found in our forests in school's midday meals can provide nutritious food to children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 💪

    If traditional food is given as a midday meal to school children, they will maintain good health.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌸 🥣 👶

    It would be beneficial to give food items made from Mahua to pregnant women, children, and school children.

    — Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

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