Adding Eggs in the Mid-day meal scheme, Right or Wrong??

 

• Recently, Karnataka government added eggs in the Mid-day meals in consideration of nutritional concerns.
• PM POSHAN SHAKTI NIRMAN SCHEME, an Updated version of Mid-day meal scheme of 1995. It takes place under the leadership of Pm Narendra Modi.For more details of this scheme click on this 👉 mdm.nic.in
• According to National family health survey- 5, 35% children under the age of 5 are stunted and nearly 20% of children are wasted so Karnataka has serious malnutrition. This same scene is within the Northern States also.

In last year due to the pandemic, this situation was exaggerated and it significantly impacted to 85% poor children who didn't recieve proper meals as schools were closed this means no such scheme was there. From this, you can also say that such mid-day meal schemes is the motivation for parents to send their children in schools. 

Coming back to the root problem for which we are writing this, as we said that Karnataka now added boil eggs to their mid-day Meals of childrens for enhancing their nutritional values. We all know the problems of malnutrition in india and how it is detoriating the system from within. But adding nonveg food items will leads to the conflicts among the sectorian interests. It also promotes discrimination against the nonveg children. 

So, should we stop to make such decisions? is this all wrong to do ?

See, as far as the discrimination part is concerned, you can also provide them with milk, banana,etc and also enrich food quality by fortification( Rice Fortification). But is it affordable? Is it replaceable with such one shot nutrition boost egg? A clear no, no one can ensure the sustainability. We should focus more on inclusiveness, ground benefits, and most important proper Implementation because this malnutrition problem affects the aspirations of 100 million of BPL households, countrywide.

Don't you think the major reason behind the inadequate performance in Olympics despite of having similar population of china is malnutrition of our country?

In the end there is no wrong or no right in doing this, even there shouldn't be any question arises like this. Today's children are the future of tommorow and its our due responsibility to not let anyone's aspirations down, not at all with this malnutrition reason.

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