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The government must identify districts with high prevalence of malnourishment to ensure concrete actions on the ground, a parliamentary panel report has urged.
It has also recommended establishing a ‘Malnutrition Eradication Authority’, latest by June 30, 2021.
In order to ensure that food packets and hot cooked meals under the anganwadi scheme reach the intended beneficiaries, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women and Children, Youth and Sports has mooted that the Ministry “set up a vigilant monitoring mechanism”.
The report also noted that the government is introducing a new technology to improve deliverables under the Poshan Abhiyan, called the Poshan Tracker. This will replace the previous technology being implemented by the government since 2017 with the help of a loan from World Bank.
Benefits of children growing their own food
Setting up kitchen/nutrition gardens in government schools across India is an innovative addition to the ‘Mid-Day Meal’ scheme for using organic and freshly-grown vegetables to provide nutrient-rich diet to the children.
| 17 March 2021 4:45 AM GMT
Setting up kitchen/nutrition gardens in government schools across India is an innovative addition to the Mid-Day Meal scheme for using organic and freshly-grown vegetables to provide nutrient-rich diet to the children. It also helps the students take part in outdoor activities with hands-on training on growing organic vegetables. However, official data reveal that the pace of setting up nutrition gardens in schools has not gained the desired momentum in the country. So far, three lakh schools have set up nutrition gardens while about seven lakh schools are yet to develop such gardens in their premises. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth & Spor
Centre s Financial Crunch to Delay Provision of Breakfast Under Midday Meal Scheme
The Union cabinet in August 2020 had approved National Education Policy s recommendation to supplement the afternoon meal with breakfast in government schools.
Children in an Odisha school eat their midday meal. Photo: mdmodisha.nic.in.
Government11/Mar/2021
New Delhi: The decision to supplement midday meals at government and aided schools with the provision of a nutritious breakfast, as envisaged by the National Education Policy (NEP), which is scheduled to begin from April 2021 will see a delay in the implementation of the scheme due to the financial crunch being faced by the Centre,
Reform to transform education
The Centre had announced an NEP that was welcomed by most. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education has recently completed a comprehensive review process
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Education is an extremely demanding sector where reforms after reforms have become the need of the hour. While the government has put its best foot forward by announcing a truly epoch-making National Education Policy (NEP), several aspects of the process of tightening the nuts and bolts always require a relook. An important occasion for such a comprehensive review of education is the discussion of Demands for Grants, as laid down in the Union Budget.