A dimension within Traditional School Lunches
Emphasizes the role of millets and nutrition in school food for children's development and education.
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Overall Community Sentiment
It would be good if midday meals are provided in four schools in our Balangir district.
— Anangaprabha Bhoi
My name is Tulasi Majhi, from Kathibadi village, Chinapali block. If millets are made nutritious and given to children to eat in school as part of the midday meal, it would be very good.
— Jadumani Nial · Muktāpur, Nuapada, Odisha
It would be good if nutritious food is given to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if we could also provide nutritional supplements along with the midday meal to children in Mandia schools.
— Padmini Bhoi
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 food to our children through mid-day meals at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, 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 serve local food to school children for midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, 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
It would be good to provide traditional food to the children of our region in school midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if some food is given to the school children during the midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if local food is given to children in schools.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if our school children were given traditional food for their midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · 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
It would be good if the government provides food to all students through the Midday Meal (MDM) scheme.
— Priti majhi
It would be good if local food were given to children in our school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if food made from Mahua (Mahula) was given in our schools.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good to provide traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
It would be good if food prepared with Kendu, Amla, Char, and Mahul is given to school children.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good if traditional food is given priority to children in mid-day meals at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if our school children were given food during lunchtime.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if children are given regional food in school lunch.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
In Balangir district, if the available grains are made into laddoos and provided to children in Anganwadi centers as part of our mid-day meal, children will receive nutritious food by consuming those laddoos.
— Sushil Nanda · Balāngīr, Balangir, Odisha
It would be better to provide local food to school children in midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
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 give traditional food to children in school. Midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
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
It would be good to provide millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
It would be good if children were given local food twice a week during their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
It would be good to serve local food to the children of our school during lunchtime.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide Juana Mandia food to school children for their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
If the midday meal is managed by Tankadhar Majhi of Sinapali block and Katibadi Ganda, then children will eat it well and it will be nutritious.
— Jadumani Nial · Muktāpur, Nuapada, 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
It would be good if our school children are given traditional food for two days in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if children are given traditional food three days a week in the midday meal at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
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
Children's health will improve if they are given local food for their midday meal in our school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if traditional food was given to school children.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
If forest-based foods like Mahua, Chironji, and Kendu were prepared and given to our school children in their Mid-Day Meal, it would be beneficial.
— Priti majhi
AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
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