Overview

Under the PM Poshan Yojana in schools, along with the studies of the children, their health status will also be known every month. Schools will have to monitor the nutrition level of the students and also focus on over all development according to NEP-2020 by ensuring better nutritional diet for good health. The scheme covers the entire country, blocks and districts with poor nutritional status of children can also be easily identified. Because a complete account of the health of the child will be kept at every school, block and district level.

Poshan Scheme with NEP-2020 Ensures Students Health

PM Poshan Scheme with NEP-2020 Ensures Students Health

Progress in Pm Poshan Scheme at Government Level
Value Addition in PM Poshan Scheme
Role of University and Diet students in PM Poshan Scheme
Advantage of PM Poshan Scheme

Progress in Pm Poshan Scheme at Govt. Level

Under the PM Poshan Yojana, formal preparations have been started by holding a meeting with the state. The Ministry of Education has also called a separate meeting of all the states regarding this scheme.

Value Addition in PM Poshan Scheme

The ministry has suggested linking health departments of all states with this scheme. This scheme is also being linked to the new education policy NEP. In which it is being recommended to prepare a health card for each child. The ministry has sought suggestions from states to further improve the quality of food served in schools. Along with this, instructions have been given to provide proper training to the cooks. The training will be given through the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) under the Ministry of Hotel Management and Food Processing, run by the Ministry of Tourism. It has been suggested to include pulses and coarse cereals available at the district level from all the states.

It may be noted that through this scheme, nutrition is provided to about 12 crore children, from Kindergarten to Class VIII, studying in government schools.

Role of University Students and Diet Institutions in PM Poshan Scheme

University students and diet institutions will keep an eye on the social audit campaign being run to test the quality of nutrition of students in schools, now university students and student teachers studying for training in diet will also be included. Under this, they can be assigned the task of studying the nutrition level of different blocks by looking at different projects.

Its report will have to be given to the state government and the education ministry. Under this initiative, a team of enlightened people living around the school has also been formed. So that efforts can be made to make nutrition best for the students in every way.

Advantage of PM Poshan Scheme

This will help in implementing the scheme more effectively in the respective districts. It will more ensure healthy and nutritional diet for students which also advocated in NEP-2020 at school level. Thus it will boost all students physical and mental health.