{"id":50454,"date":"2025-02-04T00:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=50454"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:33:02","slug":"kerala-to-review-anganwadi-menu-after-childs-request-for-chicken-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=50454","title":{"rendered":"Kerala To Review Anganwadi Menu After Child&#8217;s Request For Chicken Fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A viral video of a child requesting biryani and chicken fry instead of upma at an anganwadi is likely to prompt changes in the menu at such childcare centres in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>State Minister for Health, Women and Child Welfare, Veena George on Monday, shared the video of a child named Shanku, making such a request on her Facebook page and said the anganwadi&#8217;s menu would be revised.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the child made the request innocently, and it is being taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Sending warm regards to Shanku, his mother, and the anganwadi staff, the minister said, &#8220;The menu will be reviewed, taking Shanku&#8217;s suggestion into account.&#8221; George explained that various types of food are provided through anganwadis to ensure nutritional meals for children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under this government, a scheme to provide eggs and milk through anganwadis has been successfully implemented. In coordination with the Department of Women and Child Development, local bodies provide a variety of foods in anganwadis,&#8221; Ms George added.<\/p>\n<p>In the viral video, the child, wearing a cap, was heard innocently asking his mother, &#8220;I need &#8216;birnani&#8217; (biryani) and &#8216;poricha kozhi&#8217; (chicken fry) in the anganwadi instead of upma.&#8221; His mother said she filmed the video when he requested while eating biryani at home, then posted it on Instagram, where it went viral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After seeing the video, we received calls from some people who offered biryani and chicken fry to Shanku,&#8221; she told a news channel.<\/p>\n<p>Netizens also supported the child&#8217;s request, with some suggesting that the government should reduce the food provided to convicts in jails and offer better meals to children through anganwadis.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bA viral video of a child requesting biryani and chicken fry instead of upma at an anganwadi is likely to prompt changes in the menu at such childcare centres in Kerala.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A viral video of a child requesting biryani and chicken fry instead of upma at an anganwadi is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2cc77pfk_veena-george_625x300_04_February_25-SkM0RJ-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}