-The New Indian Express Students of Classes 1-8 of all dists to get these for 46 days in a year BENGALURU: The Karnataka Department of School Education and Literacy announced that eggs, bananas or peanut chikkis (supplementary nutrition) would be included in the Midday meal scheme as part of ‘PM Poshan shakti Nirman’ for students of Classes 1-8 studying in government and aided schools for 46 days a year in all districts. The...
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Dr. Sylvia Karpagam, a public health doctor who advocates for balanced diet, interviewed by Rohitha Naraharisetty (TheSwaddle.com)
-TheSwaddle.com A position paper drafted by a committee of experts under the National Education Policy recommended removing meat and eggs from the Midday meal scheme in schools, which is one of the mainstays of children’s nutrition in the country. The committee made some dubious claims pertaining to lifestyle, genetics, and discrimination in justifying the policy — revealing the inherent casteist roots of food politics in India. The Swaddle’s Rohitha Naraharisetty spoke to...
More »NEP Position Paper to Schools: Meat and Eggs Are Bad for Health and Nation -Megha
-TheWire.in * A position paper drafted by a group of experts under the National Education Policy 2020 advances a misguided idea of nutrition couched in the language of nationalism. * The paper recommends that meat and eggs be removed from Midday meals and from children’s lessons, but on unscientific grounds and through statements devoid of evidence. * The paper also uses conflates wildly different – and potentially dangerous – terms like “gene-diet interactions”,...
More »Economist to Jharkhand: Add an egg to Midday meal -Achintya Ganguly
-The Telegraph Jean Dreze reminds Rameshwar Oran that 'Jharkhand’s children are among the most undernourished in the world' Ranchi: An egg served with every school Midday meal will not only help address nutrition issues among children but also improve attendance at schools, development economist Jean Dreze said in a letter to Jharkhand finance minister Rameshwar Oran on Thursday. In the letter, Dreze appealed to the minister “for provision of one egg per day...
More »Centre gives nod to Goa’s plan to serve eggs in Midday meal -Fareeha Iftikhar
-Hindustan Times The decision by the project approval board of the PM POSHAN scheme under the Union ministry of education is expected to benefit 900,000 children. Close to a lakh schoolchildren in Goa will soon have an egg as a supplement in their Midday meals three times a week after a central supervisory board approved the state government’s proposal, according to minutes of an official meeting. The decision by the project approval board...
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