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    Enhancing Mid-Day Meals

    This cluster focuses on improving child nutrition and health through healthy school food, particularly in mid-day meal programs featuring millet.

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    In your area, citizens are overwhelmingly advocating for significant enhancements to children's nutrition through school midday meals. There's a strong consensus that incorporating traditional, local, and nutrient-rich foods is essential for children's physical and mental development. Citizens propose a variety of additions, including diverse millets like ragi and mandua, along with pulses and seasonal forest produce such as Mahua ladoos and various leafy greens 🌿. These thoughtful suggestions aim to ensure children receive more balanced and culturally appropriate meals, ultimately fostering improved health outcomes and well-being for students. 💡 Many also suggest integrating these items into the Public Distribution System (PDS) for broader impact, creating a more holistic approach to child nutrition. 🛣️

    Dominant Themes

    Inclusion of Millets in Midday Meals
    Incorporation of Local & Traditional Foods
    Enhancing Children's Nutrition
    Utilization of Forest Produce
    Role of PDS in Food Distribution

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🏫 🍎Implement a pilot program to introduce diverse millets (e.g., ragi, mandua, kodo) into school midday meals twice a week, focusing on locally available varieties.
    • 🌳 🍲 🌱Develop guidelines for the sustainable procurement and integration of local forest produce and seasonal greens (e.g., Mahua, drumstick leaves) into the midday meal menu.
    • 🛒 📊 🤝Review and update Public Distribution System (PDS) guidelines to potentially include locally sourced nutritious grains and pulses, aligning with midday meal initiatives to ensure wider access.

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    🧒 🥣 🧠

    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

    🧑‍🎓 🍽️ 💪

    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

    🌾 🧒 💪

    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

    🌰 🏫 💪

    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

    🧒 🥣 💪

    It would be good to provide food like millet (ragi) and pulses to school children twice a week during their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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    🌳 🏫 💪

    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 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

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

    🧑‍🎓 🌾 🧠

    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

    🫘 🏫 💪

    Moong dal is a nutritious food, it should be included in school mid-day meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · 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.

    — gobardhan pangi

    🍲 🏫 💪

    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

    🥣 🏫 💪

    Moong dal is a nutritious food. It should be included in school mid-day meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar

    🧒 🍎 😊

    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 give school children ragi and millet-based food two days a week in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🤲 💪

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

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

    — Kusha Mahakud

    🌿 🏫 🍎

    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

    🧒 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, 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

    🧑‍🍳 🍲 💪

    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 ladoos made from Mahua, a food found in our forests, in the school's mid-day meal will be nutritious for children.

    — Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 🌱

    Hemant Sha village Nilaji: Forest-based millets and Gurji traditional food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals. This will help in the mental and physical development of children.

    — RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · 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 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 traditional food to school children in their 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

    🏫 🍎 💪

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

    — Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

    👦 🍎 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍽️ 💪

    As nutritious food, we should include milk and eggs in children's school meals so that children can get complete nutritional food.

    — Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🧒 🍲 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 💪

    Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🍽️ 👍

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

    — Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🥕 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🥚 🥛 💪

    Egg and milk can be included in the food to provide nutritious meals to children in anganwadis and schools.

    — Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

    🧒 🍲 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

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    🌳Local & Forest Foods35 voices
    🥗Healthy School Eating28 voices
    🥣Millets for Child Health23 voices
    🌾Millet & Public Distribution13 voices
    👶Preventing Child Malnutrition8 voices
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