Meausres will be taken to optimise the educational performane among school children by improving their nutritional status by drawing attention to aabove mentioned areas and adoption the following strategies.
1. The Government will ensure the right of school children to have nutritious, culturally acceptable food available at a reasonable cost within the school premises
2. Ensure food hygiene
3. Facilitate children to get their meals during school hours,
4. Develop the school canteen as a “health promoting center”
5. Promote and provide child friendly services in school canteens
6. Allocation of necessary funds to improve facilities of school canteens
7. Support & strengthen human resource development to improve quality of services to a level acceptable to the consumer
8. Build up a regular monitoring system with the participation of relevant officers in both health and education sectors in National, Provincial, District, Zonal and Divisional levels
9. Take every opportunity to develop healthy dietary habits among school children by improving their knowledge, attitude and practices over diet
10. Evaluate at national level to assess the achievements of the broad aims of the policy