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    Millets for Healthy Eating

    This theme emphasizes the benefits of incorporating millets and healthy eating practices into school and midday meal programs for child nutrition.

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    In your area, citizens are overwhelmingly expressing a strong desire to enrich the existing school mid-day meal programs. The primary concern is to enhance the nutritional intake of children by systematically integrating a wider array of traditional, local, and millet-based foods 🍚. Many believe that regular inclusion of specific items like ragi, kodo, and jowar, along with diverse pulses and indigenous forest products, will profoundly support children's physical and mental development. 🧠 There's also a significant call to extend this initiative to the Public Distribution System (PDS) to ensure broader community access to these highly nutritious grains. 💡 This collective voice indicates a clear path towards more culturally relevant and health-benefiting food options for students.

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets and Traditional Foods in Mid-Day Meals
    Enhancing Children's Health and Nutritional Intake
    Integration of Local and Indigenous Produce
    Expansion of Nutritious Food via Public Distribution System (PDS)
    Frequency of Healthy Meal Inclusion

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🍽 🌾 🗓Revamp school mid-day meal menus to consistently include diverse millets and traditional regional foods at least twice a week, prioritizing locally sourced ingredients.
    • 🌿 🛒 📈Investigate and implement pathways to integrate highly nutritious local produce, including selected forest products and indigenous pulses, into both mid-day meals and the Public Distribution System.
    • 🗣 🌱 🤝Initiate community engagement programs to gather local expertise on traditional recipes and sustainable sourcing, fostering acceptance and participation in the enhanced meal programs.

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    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

    🧒 🥣 💪

    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 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

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

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    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🌾 🥣 💪

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

    — 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

    👧 🌾 💪

    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

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, 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

    👦 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🍲 ❤️

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🏫 🥣 💪

    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🌾 💪

    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

    👧 🌾 💪

    School children will be provided with foods like millets, maize, foxtail millet, and little millet twice a week in their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🧒 🥘 👍

    It would be good if our school children are given traditional food for two days in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, 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

    🧒 🥕 👍

    It would be good if children were given local food twice a week during their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    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 food to our children through mid-day meals at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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

    🌾 👧 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

    If ragi flatbread, ragi porridge, and other ragi preparations were subtly served to the children in their midday meal, it would have been good for everyone.

    — Mishra · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

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

    — Kachala Choudhary

    🧒 🥘 👍

    It would be good if children are given traditional food three days a week in the midday meal at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

    🥕 🍽️ 👧

    It would be good to serve local food to school children for midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, 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 give traditional food to children in school. Midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, 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

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · 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

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