Introducing fortified staples, focussing on fulfilling nutritional requirements and increasing the ration size can help mitigate the nutrition loss suffered by children who could not get mid-day meals during the Covid-19 induced lockdown, United Nations World Food Programme country director to India Bishow Parajuli said.
In an interview to PTI, Parajuli said India runs the largest school-feeding programme of the mid-day meal scheme but the Covid-19 crisis has rolled back some of the progress that was made in reducing malnutrition and is aggravating existing challenges. Read more…
