In order to integrate millets in midday meals, the Akshaya Patra Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR), Nutri Hub, and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR).

Millets have been added to the menu for mid-day meals to counter health problems and malnutrition among students. According to The Foundation’s representatives, the same will be put into practice within a month or two.

“We will start including millets in the schools we are associated with in Karnataka and the same will be extended to other states at a later stage,” said Anant Arora, Chief Sustainability and Communication Officer, Akshaya Patra Foundation. 

“Millets have now become the super food of the urban class,” stated Dr B Dayakar Rao, Chief Executive Officer of Nutri Hub and Principal Scientist of ICAR. Millets is the solution to a number of health problems brought on by an unhealthy lifestyle.

One of the instructions issued by the Union Education Ministry under PM Poshan Abhiyaan is to include millets in the midday meals.