The government will identify external agencies to provide eggs at schools where ISKCON supplies midday meals under its Akshaya Patra scheme. B.C. Nagesh, Minister of School Education and Literacy, on Tuesday said that inclusion of eggs in meals will be the best way to combat malnutrition.
While the Finance department has given its concurrence to provide eggs to schools in all districts of Karnataka for 46 days in a year, the Government Order on the same is still pending.
Mr. Nagesh, speaking to reporters at an interaction in Press Club, said, “Not only in India, but all over the world, system of food is a debatable thing. There are many countries where people do not even consume milk. This is how the new generations are. But at present, this (issue of eggs) is the best we can do to eradicate malnutrition. At places where ISCKON supplies food, orders will be given to other people to supply eggs.”
