School Meal Programs

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

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

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

— Kusha Mahakud

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

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

— AbhiLL Ipsa

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

— 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 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 millets like Suan, Mandia, Kangu, Bargudi Badi to school children for three days a week in their midday meals.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

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

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

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

Our native little millet, kodo, maize, sorghum, arhar, urad, kulthi, moong, and soybean should also be included in the government's ration card and in our school's midday meal.

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

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

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

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

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

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 nutritious food like finger millet in meals.

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

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

— Kusha Mahakud

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

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

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

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 items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.

— 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 food to our children through mid-day meals at school.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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 beneficial if food items like corn and millet porridge are provided to school children for two days during the mid-day meal.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

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

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

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

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

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

— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh