A dimension within Food Security & Local Staples
This theme emphasizes the benefits of incorporating millets and other healthy foods into school meals to boost child nutrition.
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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 food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, 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 give school children ragi and millet-based food two days a week in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Millet should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · 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
Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, 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
Millet is a nutritious and protein-rich food. We can provide millet to children in school midday meals because it is nutritious.
— Padmini Bhoi
Nutritious food items like ragi should be introduced in mid-day meals and PDS.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, 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
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 millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
It would be good to provide nutritious food like finger millet in meals.
— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, 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
Including millet, foxtail millet, and sorghum twice a week in the school's midday meal would keep health good.
— 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
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
Moong dal is a nutritious food, it should be included in school mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha
Moong dal is a nutritious food. It should be included in school mid-day meals.
— Tankeswar Kumar
Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
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
The government should include millet in PDS or mid-day meals.
— Kusha Mahakud
To provide maximum nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, finger millet will be included in school mid-day meals or traditional foods, followed by our various...
— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha
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 items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Millet and horse gram should be included in the midday meal.
— Kachala Choudhary
Mandua, a traditional food item, should be included in the Mid-Day Meal for the physical and mental development of children in schools.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
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 traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.
— 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
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
The PDS midday meal provided millet as nutritious food for children to eat.
— Kusha Mahakud
It would be good to provide food to our children through mid-day meals at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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
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 nutritious food is given to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
Millet is our traditional food, and it would be good if millet were included in school midday meals.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi porridge, mandru, etc. are provided in the school's midday meal.
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