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Noon meal gets spicy
Thirteen varieties of rice and four types of egg
‘masala’ will soon enrich the plates of students benefiting under the
nutritious noon-meal scheme of the State government, Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa
told the Assembly on Friday.
Making a
suo motu statement, she said the purpose was to break the monotony in
the menu under the scheme introduced by former Chief Minister M.G.
Ramchandran 30 years ago and to make them palatable.
The
government consulted well-known chefs and nutrition experts on this
issue and ‘channa biriyanai’ and pepper egg were served on an
experimental basis in a school in Saidapet and the Andhanallur panchayat
union school in Chief Minister’s Srirangam constituency.
The students liked it and the chefs demonstrated 13 varieties of rice and four types of egg ‘masala.’
The
Chief Minister said the new scheme would be introduced in one taluk in
every district and depending on the feedback, this would be extended to
other areas gradually.
There would be one set of menu for the first and third weeks of a month and another set for the second and fourth week.
The
students would be served vegetable ‘biriyani’
and pepper powder egg
on
first and third Mondays; ‘channa-pulav’
and tomato ‘masala’ on Tuesdays;
tomato rice and pepper egg on Wednesdays; rice, sambar and boiled egg
on Thursdays and curry leaf rice or green (keerai) rice, egg masala and
roasted potato on Fridays.
The menu of second and
fourth Mondays would be ‘sambar’ rice,
onion and tomato egg ‘masala’;
mealmaker and vegetable mixed rice
and pepper egg
on Tuesdays; tamarind
rice
and tomato egg ‘masala’
on Wednesdays; lemon rice,
tomato egg
‘masala’
and ‘sundal’
on Thursdays and
rice
, sambar,
boiled egg
and
roasted potato
on Fridays.
The Chief Minister said
the government would also provide a variety of dishes to the children
attached to ‘anganwadis’ in the State.
Special attention would be made
to the children, considering their requirements and digestive capacity.
The
children would get tomato rice
and boiled egg
on Mondays;
mixed rice
and ‘sundal
’ on Tuesdays;
vegetable ‘pulav’
and boiled egg
on
Wednesdays;
lemon rice
and boiled egg
on Thursdays; ‘dhal’ rice
and
boiled potato
on Fridays and mixed rice
on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ms.
Jayalalithaa said the new menu would increase the number of students
attending school and improve their nutritional requirement.
Keywords: noon-meal scheme, Jayalalithaa, noon meal menu, child nutrition
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