Healthy Diet & PDS

The most nutritious local food items to be included in PDS and Mid-Day Meal are pulses, as they are an excellent source of protein, fiber, and essential minerals. Additionally, leafy green vegetables like spinach, and local seasonal fruits like guava, berries, and dates should also be included as they are rich in vitamins.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

— Padmini Bhoi

Lentils, rice, bread, milk, yogurt, then we will be healthy.

— deena rawat · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Lentils, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Millet and horse gram should be included in the midday meal.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

Pulses, eggs, sattu, fruits, millets, corn, and milk are necessary. Good nutritious food is essential for overall development and promotes body growth by creating new cells.

— Naukeshi Sahu

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

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

— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand

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

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

Voilà. There should be lentils. There should be roti. There should be corn roti. There should be moong dal. All these things, I say, increase blood for a healthy child.

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables

— Maya kumari Damor

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

— Kusha Mahakud

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

Pulses, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

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

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

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

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

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha

Pulses, porridge, and milk are nutritious food for children, and the government should make these available to children at all times.

— Chanda

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

— Pushpalata Surtange · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

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

Spinach greens, goat's milk, banana, cow's milk, and lentils are all good for children's nutrition, for their health, and for their brains.

— arun raja · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Include drumstick and spinach vegetable in the mid-day meal so that children's physical development will occur and they will get nutrition.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Here, dal rice, green vegetables, egg, and fish are among the most nutritious foods.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

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 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

Nutritious food should be used in children's meals, and they should be given eggs and lentil meals once a week so that children can become strong.

— Pushpalata Surtange · Bemetara, Chhattisgarh

Finger millet, kueri, foxtail millet, pumpkin, baitalu, black gram, kating, pigeon pea, green gram, queen yam, and rice yam should be included in the midday meal.

— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha

It is nutritious food. Exercised at school. And lentils, pigeon pea lentils.

— Chanda

Including millet, foxtail millet, and sorghum twice a week in the school's midday meal would keep health good.

— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

Remember that foods like puffed rice, radish, and corn preparations are nutritious for children if provided.

— Parsuram Sa · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha