By A report by the panel on the National Education Policy from Karnataka has recommended that eggs, meat and some other foods should not be given to children as part of the midday meal program. The report alleges that, due to Indians’ small body frames, the excess energy from regular consumption
Caloric Sufficiency Is Not Nutrient Sufficiency! The Government Now Agrees
It appears that the Government has finally accepted that caloric sufficiency does not make a meal nutritious. An inter-ministerial committee has recommended a significant increase in the protein and micronutrient content of midday meals.
Eggs In Midday Meals For Children Are Good!
Someone needs to educate this semi-literate politician on the nutritional value of eggs, and the severe malnutrition problems amongst Indian children. He also probably does not know that over 75 percent of Indians are non vegetarians. So much for his idiotic comment that non-vegetarianism is “against Indian traditions”. https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/madhya-pradesh-egg-anganwadi-bjp-leader-gopal-bhargava-says-eating-meat-can-turn-children-into-cannibals/1750690/