School Mid-day Meal Programme in India: Past, Present, and Future

Ramachandran, Prema

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“…Nonetheless, MDM monitoring and evaluation reports indicate that mid-day meals in India are largely made of major cereals (rice and wheat), with small amounts of vegetables and legumes because of their high prices [9]. Since millets are nutritious, complementary to legumes, and are cheaper when supplied through the PDS, millet-based recipes could provide the much needed balanced nutrition at a lower cost compared to adding vegetables and legumes to the rice-based meals.…”

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“…The MDM comprises a freshly cooked meal containing food grains, mainly rice ( Oryza sativa L.), legumes and vegetables. In general, the MDM in India provides cereal on a regular basis in adequate quantities, while pulses and vegetables are inadequate due to their high prices [9]. In other words, the MDM’s major ingredient is a cereal, particularly rice and wheat.…”

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Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

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The study assessed the potential for use of millets in mid-day school meal programs for better nutritional outcomes of children in a peri-urban region of Karnataka, India, where children conventionally consumed a fortified rice-based mid-day meal. For a three-month period, millet-based mid-day meals were fed to 1500 adolescent children at two schools, of which 136 were studied as the intervention group and were compared with 107 other children in two other schools that did not receive the intervention. The intervention design was equivalent to the parallel group, two-arm, superiority trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The end line allocation ratio was 1.27:1 due to attrition. It was found that there was statistically significant improvement in stunting (p = 0.000) and the body mass index (p = 0.003) in the intervention group and not in the control group (p = 0.351 and p = 0.511, respectively). The sensory evaluation revealed that all the millet-based menu items had high acceptability, with the highest scores for the following three items: finger millet idli, a steam cooked fermented savory cake; little and pearl millet bisi belle bath, a millet-lentil hot meal; and upma, a pearl and little millet-vegetable meal. These results suggest significant potential for millets to replace or supplement rice in school feeding programs for improved nutritional outcomes of children.

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Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

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“…This can be attributed to the benefits of the existing mid-day-meal programme and the overall better attendance of girls as visualised and documented by our team during our visits to the schools. Evidence elsewhere has also suggested benefits in the overall nutrition of the mid-day-meal scheme in India ( 30 ).…”

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Growth Charts for Tribal, School-Going Children in Jharkhand Using Anthropometry and Lambda-Mu-Sigma Methods to Create Growth Charts

Kumar

Kujur

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Background This study intends to find the growth patterns of selected school children. Globally accepted statistical methods were used to evaluate the data and prepare a growth chart. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted with school-going children from 16 selected schools of a tribal district in Jharkhand using multistage cluster random sampling. In each selected school, 60 students, 30 boys and 30 girls, were chosen randomly, totaling 960 children (full data was for 935 children only). Growth charts were created using Lambda-Mu-Sigma (LMS) chart maker version 2.5 for height, weight and body mass index (BMI). In the charts, the LMS values with Z scores for each age and respective height and weight for boys and girls were recorded. Results The 468 boys and 467 girls were in the range of 6–14 years of age. Percentile values obtained for the measured heights in centimetres were evaluated and compared with Indian Academy of Pediatrics reference charts for boys and girls for the same age group, and our values were found to be on the lower side. We were able to plot a growth chart of the data set; as the tribal children’s ethnicity is different, this growth chart might be used to assess nutritional status. Conclusion We concluded that growth curves for height, weight, and BMI may be used for evaluating children of age 6–14 years in the tribal population. The measures can be a good indicator of their nourishment status and overall growth patterns, which might be indigenous to their ethnicity. A larger sample size of similar tribal populations may give a clearer picture.

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“…This special issue brings together many scholarly articles on child health, tracing the adversities and accomplishments that marked the journey of the last 50 y. The need for modifications in the ICDS is discussed [13], as are methods for strengthening the School Mid Day Meal Programme [14]. Even as a strong case is made for discontinuation of the High Dose Vitamin A distribution in India, strategies for the prevention and control of Vitamin A deficiency are analysed and emphasised as an urgent need [15].…”

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Child Health Policies in India: Moving from a Discernible Past to a Promising Future

Mathur

Reddy

2019

Indian J Pediatr

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School Mid-day Meal Programme in India: Past, Present, and Future

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Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

Growth Charts for Tribal, School-Going Children in Jharkhand Using Anthropometry and Lambda-Mu-Sigma Methods to Create Growth Charts

Child Health Policies in India: Moving from a Discernible Past to a Promising Future

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