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Guidelines for schools to provide nutritional food to students soon

Indore schools and parents welcomed the idea of the food safety manual.

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Soon private and government schools of the city may have a certain set of guidelines for feeding students in school hours as the food standard and security authority is preparing to issue nutritional guidelines to schools.

"The food standard and security authority is preparing guidelines for private and government schools to provide nutritional food to students for which Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has prepared a set of recommendations” said GAIN nutrition expert Ruchika Sachdeva.

Sachdeva said the authority had sought recommendations on the key nutritional components required for children and had engaged one of its agencies to prepare a manual which will consist of the menu that should be used by school canteens.

"The guideline will not be a compulsion on schools," Sachdeva said. City schools and parents welcomed the idea of the food safety manual and said that it will affirm the existing healthy practices in good schools and rectify the inferior practices in the faulty ones.

"The manual will be warmly welcomed. We run a school kitchen in the campus and follow a nutritional menu as it is, the manual will definitely be an add on," said Advanced Academy School principal Manoj Bajpai. "If schools follow the suggested manual then parents will be more relaxed to know that the authority recommended expert diet is being given to children," said Pooja Shrivastava whose son attends Shishukunj School.

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