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Eat Right School (ERS)
About
Poor eating habits impact not only the physical, but also the mental and cognitive development of children, lower their immunity and can have serious implications on learning outcomes. Schools are well poised to influence dietary practices and promote lifelong healthy habits, as students spend an average of 7-8 hours per day in school and are strongly influenced by peers and teachers. Moreover, most of our food habits are established at a young age. Hence as a special focus, FSSAI has put together the Eat Right School Campaign, at the heart of which lies the creation of Eat Right Schools.
Eat Right School is designed help school children inculcate the habit of eating safe, eating healthy and eating sustainably through an interactive learning model. The Yellow Books I & II that have been developed specifically for school children from grades 1-8 with age appropriate and scientifically credible content on healthy habits. Schools may also create Health and Wellness Teams, certified by FSSAI, to drive this programme in the school. Further, a comprehensive matrix has been created for schools that includes curricular and extracurricular activities based on which points are awarded. Based on the score received on the matrix, a school may be certified as an Eat Right School.
Role of Stakeholders
- Individual Schools/School Foundations or Trusts: Their role is to implement the Eat Right School programme.
- Central and State Education Departments and School Boards: Their role is to increase outreach, create regionalised content, and to facilitate the adoption of the Eat Right School programme.
- Ministry of Education(MoE)– DIKSHA: This is a learning & certification platform for teachers and students with curated learning material on all topics. Diksha platform and Project Management Unit will aid dissemination of content and certification of Health & Wellness Ambassadors under the health and wellness track in all states. They have an outreach of 30 lakh teachers in 28 states.
- National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) – An MoU has been signed with NIOS to integrate the Eat Right principles into the curriculum of the largest open schooling board in India with an outreach of over 5 lakh students.
- Anemia Mukt Bharat and UNICEF: Their role is to converge efforts and joining hands to spread awareness among school children across India
- Publishing Houses/Corporates: Their role is to integrate content from the Yellow Books into text books for outreach as well as printing/distribution of Yellow Books
- Implementation Partners such as NGO– Their role is to integrate Eat Right School messages into mainstream curricular & co-curricular activities.
- Domain Experts: They can lend expertise to create credible content and dissemination through Safe and Nurtitious Food (SNF) Fellows
Steps for Implementation
- A School can register online on the School Portal: www.fssai.gov.in/eatrightschool – A user-friendly and comprehensive online portal has been created for school registration, creation of Health & Wellness teams, and access to many activities under Eat Right School.
- Create and Certify Health and Wellness Ambassadors (HWA): School teachers and/or parents can be nominated as Health and Wellness Ambassadors /Health and Wellness teams. They would be certified by FSSAI by undertaking an online certification program at www.fssai.gov.in/eatrightschool and drive the Eat Right School programme.
- Conduct Eat Right Activities: Schools will create an activity calendar and conduct activities around eating right such as organizing ‘Eat Right Carnival’ and ‘Healthy Recipe Day’, include eating safe and healthy food as a part of SUPW activities, organize sessions with mothers for healthy & tasty snacks, identify ‘Master & Miss Sehat’ from each class on a weekly/monthly basis, create school kitchen gardens, paint a wall, participate in theatre, puppet activities based on Eat Right Themes etc. The evidence of these activities must be uploaded on the school website.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Schools will use the Eat Right Matrix available on the website www.fssai.gov.in/eatrightschool to monitor and evaluate the programme.
- Eat Right School Certification: Suitable reward and recognition will be given to the schools on the basis of their performance.
Resources
A. Guidance Documents:
- https://fssai.gov.in/eatrightschool/learning-books.php?req=ybook)
- Yellow Books: These are available in 11 languages (English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali & Assamese on www.fssai.gov.in/eatrightschool.The English version also available on DIKSHA - National Teacher’s Platform, created by MHRD for teachers across India
- Activity Book - A fun-filled activity book has been designed to teach and reinforce the message of safe and nutritious food.
- Training Manual - A teacher training manual has also been developed to give an in-depth understanding of the concepts on food safety and nutrition
B. Website
D. Supplementary Resources
Contact
Success Stories
Over 33,000 schools across the country have enrolled in the programme through an online portal www.fsssai.gov.in/eatrightschool.
Schools like Gyan Mandir Public School, Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram and Mt. Abu School have trained Health and Wellness Ambassadors and now use resources such as Yellow Books and Activity Book in the curriculum. They conduct competitions/melas such as ‘Healthy Recipe Contest’ that are available and accessible to parents, Eat Right Carnival, which includes student exhibits, full-day events and design of paper bags by students to make the campus plastic free. Students also identify and train petty vendors around the campus selling food to ensure safety of food.
Eat Right Creativity Challenge was launched by FSSAI from 14th November 2018 – 10the January 2019to unleash the creative talent of young people and engage, excite and enable them to inculcate healthy eating habits. A total of 75,137 children from 3621 schools across numerous States/UTs participated in ‘On-the-Spot Poster’ Competition, Wall-Art Competition and Digital Creative Competition. The winners were awarded cash prizes and appreciation certificates in a grand award ceremony in New Delhi on 29th January 2019. The second Eat Right Creativity Challenge was launched on 16th October 2020 in over 2.5 lakh students have participated from over 4500schools.