Education secretary tells collectors to ensure mid-day meal guidelines are followed

Raipur | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

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Moreover, mid-day meals at just three schools were found with 100% prescribed nutrition value. If the egg is not accepted by children or their parents, then food of equivalent nutrition value in place of it should be provided. Additionally, to increase the quantity of protein, soya or soya products of high quality should be given to the children.Furthermore, seasonal fruits available locally should also be part of the mid-day meals. RAIPUR: After finding insufficient calorie content and protein in mid-day meals across Chhattisgarh, the state school education secretary instructed collectors to strictly follow the guidelines of mid-day meal menu.In a review meeting, school education secretary Gaurav Dwivedi informed collectors that during the sampling test of food nutrition value of mid-day meals, 19 districts and five centralized kitchens out of 27 districts were examined with the samples collected from 66 schools. In the test report, samples of 56 schools were received out of which only 18 schools were found have food with 85% or more of the prescribed nutrition value..