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    Midday Meal Programs

    This theme explores the implementation and impact of midday meal programs for school children, often utilizing local food.

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    Nearby, the voices are overwhelmingly focused on enhancing the school midday meal program. While existing efforts are acknowledged, there's a clear emphasis on the need to further enrich children's diets for optimal health. The community strongly advocates for incorporating nutritious, traditional, and local foods 🍎. Many submissions highlight the benefits of millets (like ragi and various indigenous grains) and other local produce such as leafy greens and forest items like mahua ladoos. These additions are consistently seen as crucial for children's physical and mental development 🌱, promoting better health and nutritional intake 💡.

    Dominant Themes

    Enhancing Midday Meal Programs
    Integration of Traditional & Local Foods
    Promotion of Millet-Based Nutrition
    Children's Health & Development
    Diverse Nutritious Food Items

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🍲 🌍 💪Integrate locally sourced, traditional, and indigenous food items into the midday meal menus regularly, focusing on cultural relevance and nutritional value.
    • 🌾 🥗 🧠Systematically include various millets (e.g., ragi, kangu) and other nutrient-dense local produce like mahua, pulses, and leafy greens, possibly on a scheduled basis (e.g., 2-3 times a week), to boost children's nutritional intake.
    • 🥚 🥛 🍓Explore opportunities to introduce a broader range of supplementary nutritious foods such as eggs, milk, and seasonal fruits in both school and Anganwadi midday meal programs to ensure comprehensive child development.

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    ODISHA, INDIA91 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA6 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA3 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA3 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA2 voices RAJASTHAN, INDIA1 voice

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    🧒 🤲 🍽️

    Our school children are given midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 ☀️

    Midday meals were given to the children

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🍽️ 👍

    Midday meal for our school children. Local food which is good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    The PDS midday meal provided millet as nutritious food for children to eat.

    — Kusha Mahakud

    🏫 🥣 💪

    Nutritious food for children, such as Darua dal, is provided at school.

    — Chanda

    🍲 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 💪

    It would be good to give traditional food to children in school. Midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍎 😊

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🥕 🍽️ 👧

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 🍽️

    It would be good to provide traditional food to children for their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🥕 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 ❤️

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🏫 🥣 🌱

    To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi porridge, mandru, etc. are provided in the school's midday meal.

    — gobardhan pangi

    🏫 🥣 💪

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

    — Padmini Bhoi

    👦 🍎 🍽️

    Children prefer local food. Nutritious food should be included in the mid-day meal based on availability.

    — Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    🧒 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    👧 🥬 🍽️

    For the school children's midday meal, various types of greens like Jungle Saag, Kuler Saag, Munga Saag, etc., were provided, and food was served.

    — Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 💪

    Giving traditional food to school children for lunch will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🍲 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children during lunch time.

    — 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

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, 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 good to serve local food during lunch for school children.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥣 💪

    Nutritious forest produce, such as millet, will be provided to children as part of their midday meals through the Public Distribution System.

    — Padmini Bhoi

    🧒 🥘 😋

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children during lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🍲 😊

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🧑‍🎓 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍎 🧒 ❤️

    It would be good to serve local food to the children of our school during lunchtime.

    — 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 a traditional meal to children in school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍎 🤲 🧒

    Nutritious food should be given to local children.

    — Bijayalaxmi sabar · Khilapadar, Rayagada, Odisha

    👦 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍽️ 😊

    It would be good if some food is given to the school children during the midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🍲 😊

    It would be good to serve traditional food to the children of our school during lunchtime.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Lobersing (Phuntsokling Tibetan settlement), Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍎 💪

    Children's health will improve if they are given local food for their midday meal in our school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 💪

    If traditional food is given to children in midday meals, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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

    🧒 🍎 💪

    If children are given local food for lunch at school, their health remains good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🥔 🏫 😋

    Potato and jackfruit, these two items, we can provide to children as food in the PDS mid-day meal program running in schools.

    — Prasanna Pradhan · Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha, Odisha

    👶Anganwadi & Child Nutrition39 voices
    🥕Local & Traditional School Food35 voices
    🍚Traditional School Lunches34 voices
    🍎Healthy School Meals18 voices
    🍽️Midday Meal Programs18 voices
    🌱Millet Food Policy6 voices