Mid day meal scheme is a school meal program started to
improve the nutritional status and attendance of students
under Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. Proper management in timely
delivery of good quality of grains, maintaining proper hygiene
during cooking and storing grains should be ensured. Parents
should be made aware of essential nutrients required for
proper physical and mental development of their children.
Pregnant ladies should maintain proper hygiene, rich nutrition
and good living standards to avoid diseases like Diarrhea,
Anemia which will trigger other diseases on both mother and
children. Healthcare centers should be equipped with proper
knowledge and skills to implement nutrition schemes properly.
School going children should be monitored timely and should
be taught about malnutrition in classes. Fortification of
micronutrients to ensure the nutrients lost during processing.
Aaganbadi was started by the Indian government in 1975 as
part of the Integrated Child Development Services program to
combat child hunger and malnutrition. Couples should have
proper family planning so that each child gets proper share of
diet. They should be encouraged to regularly visit these centers
for proper checkup. Government should have check on price of
food commodities like rice, wheat and pulses or give subsidy so
that poor people should not deprive of them. Accountability
and dedication of people involved in these centers should be
checked. Women should be empowered to have equal status and
have right to proper nutrition and appropriate burden of physical
labor, good maternal nutrition and adequate prenatal care.