Ensure quality food under mid day meal: DDC DODA, JULY 26 - District Development Commissioner, Doda, Mubarak Singh today convened a meeting of officers of ICDS and education department to ensure quality food as per guidelines of ICDS and mid day meal programme among the poor children. Additional District Development Commissioner, G.N Balwan, Programme Officer, ICDS, Arvind Sharma, Chief Planning Officer, Dr. Yassir Balwan besides CDPO’s and senior officers of Education Department attended the meeting. The DDC, while stressing the need for providing good quality meal to children, said that ICDS scheme is the most unique programme in providing pre-school education on one hand and fighting malnutrition, morbidity, reduced learning capacity and mortality on the other hand. While as mid day meal programme is a multi-faceted programme of the GoI that seek to address the issue of food security, lack of nutrition and access to education, it involves provision of free lunch on working days for children in Govt. Schools. He emphasized upon the need of proper and vigilant monitoring of food stores where ration is being kept in schools and anganwadi centres and utilization of services of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) in this regard. He also said that due precautions and care must be taken while providing food to children in schools and anganwadi centres as it directly affects growth and development of the children. He also directed the concerned officers to ensure cleaning of kitchen sheds regularly before and after preparing meals. The DDC asked the officers to inspect anganwadi centres and schools to ensure that quality meal is being provided to the children during their visit to different areas of the district.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:55:54 +0000
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