Mid-Day Meal Nutrition

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

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

You yourself were telling me that tendu, custard apple, and other items found in the forest, which should be included in this meal through government efforts, and...

— Anil Pargi · Cheekhli, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

I think Nija Pradhan, Raike, Kandamula, and generally for lunch for children, we are requesting the government to include Mandia, Kandamula, forest fruits, Kendu, Sadhe Ganga, Amla, and various other types of roots which are Loeraka and Napanga, and when given to children, children get protein, because these are not refined foods, therefore we are requesting the government to include them in the mid-day meal.

— RITARANI PRADHAN · Raikia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We are informing the government that we should be given Kendu char, Mahua, and Mahua laddus in our mid-day meal. PDA PDA.

— Priti majhi

Include forest-based food items such as Mahua laddoo, Chaar laddoo, Fuljhi, etc., in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and mid-day meals.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

To include forest-based foods like Mahua ladoo, Char ladoo, Phuljhi, etc., in PDS and midday meals.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha

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

Request to the government: It would be good if forest products like Mahul, Chara, Kina, and Kaku were made into ladoos and given in BDS midday meals.

— Priti majhi

If the government distributes forest foods like Mahua, Kendu, and other such forest produce to children as PDS food.

— Priti majhi

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

— Priti majhi

If the government distributes forest foods like Mahua, Kendu, Chaar, etc. as PDS food to children.

— Priti majhi

The government should add seasonal fruits like Jamun, mango, ber, katola vegetable, Vegri Doda vegetable, indigenous mushrooms, bael fruit, mahua kheer, Kalthiya ki ghugri, kodo, batti, bhadi (little millet), etc., to forest food items in PDS and MDM.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

Local forest food is available. It should be included through PDS and in meals, and the government should promote it.

— Laxmanlal

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

If millet, maize, cashew, pigeon pea, Judung, etc., are included as forest foods in the mid-day meal, it will encourage the government.

— Samana Mandangi

The forest contains nutritious foods like Pitalu, Baya, Tunga, Water Yam, Elephant Foot Yam, Bitter Ginari greens, Putukuli, Honey, Amla, Bahada, and Kendu. The government should consider adding some of these to the PDS (Public Distribution System).

— Prasanna Pradhan · Mayurbhanj, Odisha

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

— Kusha Mahakud

Forest yam is a nutritious food. So, we request the government to add it to PDS and Midday Meal programs.

— Sita Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

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

— Priti majhi

The local forest foods most crucial for tackling severe malnutrition are Charo, Kendu, and Pitalukanda, which should be promoted by the government by providing them in PDS and midday meals.

— Pankajini Chhatria

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

— Priti majhi

If forest foods like Char, Mahua, Kendu, Mango, and Jam are added to PDS and mid-day meals, consumers will get nutritious food.

— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha

Gulji Mania, I am informing the government that Mahua laddoo should be made and included in the midday meal.

— Priti majhi

Fruits found in the forest such as Jamun, Custard Apple, Mahua, Chawar, etc., should be added to the Midday Meal.

— Gopal

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 should include locally available fruits, papaya, and other items in PDS.

— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

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

The most nutritious locally edible forest food items should be included in PDF mid-day meals, and the government wants to promote their nutritional value for children.

— Laxmanlal

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

Sir/Madam, if the food 'Charal' made from Mahua found in our forests is included in the school's midday meal for the children.

— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, 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

We can promote the forest-based nutritious food found on Amar's website to the government for programs like PDS midday meals.

— Kanaka Pradhan

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

If we talk about the most nutritious food, if the government provides our forest products like Mahul, Char, and Kendu as food in MDM (Mid-Day Meal), then children will eat it and become intelligent.

— Priti majhi

The government should promote laddoos made from Mahapul in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and mid-day meals.

— SUKDEV HEMBRAM

It would be good if the government distributes the four valuable Kendu fruits found in the forest as food for children in areas where midday meals are not available.

— Priti majhi