Firming up Science and Technology in Mid day Meal Programme Through Introduction of Solar Cooking

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dc.categoryJournal Article
dc.contributor.authorVijayalakshmi Purushothaman
dc.contributor.authorThirumani Devi, A
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-18T00:57:45Z
dc.date.available2017-02-18T00:57:45Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.departmentFood Science and Nutritionen_US
dc.description.abstractChildren and their well-being are the basic concern of every nation. child nutrition plays a vital role in positive health, functional efficiency and productivity in later stages of life. The School Meal Programme aims to improve not only the nutritional status of school children but also increase school enrolments, attendance, reduce dropout rates of the school children and enhance scholastic performance. Each day meal provides roughly one third of the daily nutrient requirement and helps to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among school children. One area requiring urgent attention is the cooking of school meals which involves cost and also pollutes the atmosphere. Solar cooker is the simplest technology which has been developed for cooking food without requiring any conventional fuels. Solar cooker can be an appliance for cooking in schools in which there is no smoke and no soot deposition. It saves money and fuel, and preserves the nutritive value of the food. The present study was undertaken to utilize solar energy for meeting the cooking requirements in the school lunch kitchens. For facilitating the quantity cooking a paraboloid solar cooker which is convenient, cost effective and operationally viable device was used to study the possibility of opting for large scale solar cooking devices for noon meal programmes to conserve fuel and to alleviate the drudgery of women being exposed in the kitchen. The cooking experiment was conducted for a period of four months in Sk23 Paraboloid Solar Cooker using vessel cooking and pressure cooking for noon meal beneficiaries in the selected primary schools. It was inferred from the study that the introduction of Sk23 paraboloid solar cooker could conserve one third of the fuel cost in the Noon Meal Programme.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/1519
dc.langEnglishen_US
dc.publisher.nameThe International Journals Research Journal of Social Science And Managementen_US
dc.publisher.typeInternationalen_US
dc.titleFirming up Science and Technology in Mid day Meal Programme Through Introduction of Solar Cookingen_US
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