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    A dimension within Local School Nutrition

    Millet for Midday Meals

    Prioritizing nutritious school meals, including millet, for child health.

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    Nearby, the main topics revolve around improving the nutritional content of school midday meals. Many submissions express a strong desire for the inclusion of traditional and indigenous foods, such as millets (ragi, jowar, bajra), local grains, and pulses, into the daily school menus. There's a clear call to move beyond standard offerings to enhance children's health and well-being 💡. Citizens are hopeful that by incorporating these nutrient-dense options, children will experience improved physical and mental development. The submissions highlight a collective aspiration for healthier eating habits and a more culturally relevant approach to school nutrition 💧.

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets in Midday Meals
    Importance of Traditional Foods
    Nutritional Improvement for School Children
    Midday Meal Program Enhancements
    Government Support for Healthy Food

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🥣 👍Incorporate a variety of millets (ragi, jowar, bajra, etc.) and traditional grains into the midday meal menu at least 2-3 times a week to enhance nutritional diversity.
    • 🌍 🧑 🌾Develop guidelines that prioritize the inclusion of locally sourced, traditional, and indigenous food items in school midday meals, supporting both child nutrition and local agriculture.
    • 📢 🧠 🌱Launch a campaign to educate parents and students about the nutritional benefits of millets and traditional foods to foster greater acceptance and demand.

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    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Bring Traditional Millets to School Meals

    By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Feed Our Children Our Own Foods

    Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Revive Our Food, Revive Our Culture

    By embracing our ancestral foods, language, and traditions, we can nourish our children and strengthen our community's identity and well-being.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Nourish Futures with Our Native Grains

    To preserve our health and culture, we advocate for the inclusion of native, nutritious grains in public food programs.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA90 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA12 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA3 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA1 voice

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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 millet-based food to school children for lunch.

    — 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

    🏫 🌾 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌽 🥣 💪

    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 children in our school are provided with foods like ragi and jowar in their lunch twice a week, their health will improve.

    — 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

    👦 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, 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

    🧒 🍲 ❤️

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🧒 🍎 😊

    It would be good to provide food to our children through mid-day meals at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, 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

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

    🧒 🥕 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧑‍🎓 🍲 😋

    It would be good if our school children were given traditional food for their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, 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

    🌾 🥣 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍚 🧒 ⭐

    It would be good if traditional food is given priority to children in mid-day meals at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥘 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🧒 🍲 💪

    It would be good to give traditional food to children in school. Midday 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 serve local food to school children for midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, 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

    🧒 🥣 🧠

    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

    🧒 🍲 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to the children of our region in school midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, 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

    🌾 🍽️ 💖

    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 traditional food to school children two days a week for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · 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

    🧒 🍲 💪

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children for lunch two days a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

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