Millet in PDS

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

If the government pays attention to nutritious food, it should focus on pulses, sesame, urad dal, and similar items, so that proper nutrition can be obtained.

— Ranu begam · Pamgarh, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

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

Chickpea and Mahua food items should be provided by the government under PDS.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

Lentils and wheat should be provided for midday meals and in the society.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Tilda Neora, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

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

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, 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

Millet food should be included in PDS and midday meals.

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, Odisha

The government should include millet in PDS or mid-day meals.

— Kusha Mahakud

Pulses, wheat, and kerosene should be added to the food items in the Society PDS.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

The government should promote the most nutritious foods easily available in our region, such as kodo, kutki, maize, along with tur dal, gram, and horse gram lentils, and include them in PDS and mid-day meals.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

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

— Tankeswar Kumar · Kalahandi, 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

The traditional nutritious food of our community like Kodo, Kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, arhar, sesame, masoor, moong, chana, batla etc. should be included in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals, and the government should promote them.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

In society, in addition to distributing staples like rice, salt, and sugar for charitable purposes, we should also provide wheat, lentils, chickpeas, and kerosene.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

While promoting our traditional grains, the government should also include them in PDS and mid-day meals.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

Government, tell us what we should eat. The government should provide us with arrangements for our food and drink: lentils, rice, greens, vegetables, salt, oil, spices, and soap.

— deena rawat · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

The government is giving new things to eat in MDH, which means that if we add some of our forest-based foods, like fried items (such as fried ridge gourd, fried wild yam), and also add greens and lentils, it would be good.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

When they give food to these children, they should also provide some different items. They always give rice, dal, and egg curry or soybean curry. It would be good to mix in some leafy greens, dal, and our vegetables; it would be better to mix such beneficial items.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

The most nutritious locally available moong dal and urad dal should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.

— AbhiLL Ipsa

The government providing PDS should add a stable fried side dish. For us, fried items include things like dried fish. They are not providing everything; only eggs, rice, and some vegetables are given, but they should provide all these items.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

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

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

It would be good if forest products like Mahul, Char, and Kendu are provided through the PDS system for mid-day meals.

— Priti majhi

It would be good if forest products like Mahula, Char, and Kendu were provided in mid-day meals through PDS.

— Priti majhi

It would be good if things like turmeric, beleric myrobalan, flaxseed, pearl millet, and finger millet are given.

— Mamata Panigrahi

Yes, start. The subsidized food that the government is giving us. Yes, the government is giving through PDS. What else would be good if added to that? Millet. Millet. Tell me the name. If they give millet, I will say. Aruna Chandrika Pradhan.

— Dillip pujari · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

The govt should include green leaves, roots and millers can be introduced in PDS and MDM for better protein adding in infant food.

— Bindhani Bibhuti · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha

Our traditional crops like Kodo, Kutki, maize, Rahar, Kurthi, chickpeas, and other pulses should also be given in schools and Anganwadi centers under the Midday Meal Scheme, and they should also be promoted by the government.

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh

It would be good if the government promoted these most nutritious forest foods like bananas, karadi, and kandhamula in PDS (Public Distribution System) and mid-day meals.

— anita khora · Sutipadar, Koraput, Odisha

Amla pickle should be included in mid-day meals among local forest food items, and traditional produce like Kodo, Kutki, maize, and pulses like Kurthi, Moong, Chana, and Rahar should be included in PDS.

— Rupesh Maravi

Request to the government: It would be good if forest products like Mahua, Char, Kendu, and Kaku were made into ladoos and provided in the BDS mid-day meal.

— Priti majhi

It would be good if the government provides forest foods like honey, Chaar, and Kendu as food in the midday meal.

— Priti majhi

Sir, what kind of nutritious food should the government provide us through PDS? And in schools, definitely in the midday meal, and millet, root vegetables, then forest produce, which are fruits, if these are definitely given to the students as encouragement, then the children's malnutrition can be eliminated.

— Dillip pujari · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We are providing rice and wheat. If nutritious food like pulses were also provided, it would be even better. Thank you.

— Priti majhi

Kodo kutki, maize, wheat, and kulthi and pigeon pea grown in our region should also be included in mid-day meals and PDS.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Mahul, char, and sargi have a lot of vitamins. Our bodies used to stay healthy by eating them. It would be good if the government provides food to students.

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

It would be good if the government provides forest foods like Mahua, Chhar, and Kendu as food in the MDM (Mid-Day Meal scheme).

— Priti majhi

It should be ensured that items such as millet, other commodities, and 'Kori' are included in the Public Distribution System for health.

— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan