Role Of Nurse In Nutritional
Mid-day meal programme.
Answer.
Midday Meal Programme (MDMP)
MDMP is also called the school lunch programme with following principles:
- The meal should be a supplement and not a subsititute to the home diet.
- The meal should supply at least one-third of the total energy requirement and half of the protein used.
- Cost of the meal should be reasonably low.
- Cooking should be easy, no complicated cooking process should be involved.
- As far as possible, locally available foods should be used to reduce its cost.
- The menu should be frequently rotated to avoid monotony.
- A model menu for a mid-day school meal
- Food stuffs gms per day/child
- Cereals and millets 75gms
- Pulses 30 gms
- Oil and fats 8 gms
- Leafy vegetables 30 gms
- Non-leafy vegetables 30 gms
Mid-Day Meal Scheme aims to:
- Avoid the pressurizing hunger children face in the classrooms
- Some students don’t come to school because they don’t have a suitable meal. This will increase the enrollment as well
- The attendance levels in many government schools have been seen dropping since past years. This will, therefore, help the school’s maintain a good attendance and also increase literacy.
- It improves socialization among castes
- Malnutrition is a big problem and people are still not aware of it. This step provides awareness towards malnutrition and also initiates a healthy meal to avoid it.
- Mid-day meal scheme needs a lot of labour and cooking. So it will provide employment to a lot of women.
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