Please consider the following points to be added in FFA
under section 3.1.1
1. Healthy and diversified food provision to school students, young mothers in hospitals (Revised menu for every 6 months)
Standards in Public Institutions:
Provision of Nutritious food like small millets, through Public Distribution System ( prior advertisement by the Government), including vegetables with long shelf life (onion, potato), Milk powders ( many young mothers haven't got enough milk to breast-fed the children)
Standard nutrition education for all school children and hygienic cooking methods
under section 3.1 ( Food system)
Bio fortified foods promotion: ( Bio fortification with rice, pulses or spices)- Instant Food powders ( fruit powders, vegetable powders, green leaf powders, dry fish?,)
Promoting nutritional crops in agriculture including legumes, vegetables, multivitamin greens etc through state department of agriculture, horticulture
Provision of quality vegetable seeds for home garden through PDS/ ICDS/SCHOOLS etc
under section 3.3.1
In priority action please include promotion of nutrition home gardens in every house ( Government provide housing to many rural and BPL families, insist on rain water collection but not fruit trees, vegetable gardens and compost pits for recycling perishable wastes, waste foods)
- Behavior change communication tools for educating school children, mothers on prevention of anemia,( wall paintings, puppet shows, street theaters etc)
thanks
siddick
Sr. ABUBACKER SIDDICK SYED MOHAMED