26-12-22 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

To mark the launch of International Year of (IMY) – 2023, Punjab Raj Bhavan on Monday hosts Millets Lunch for the city’s elite. City Beautifuls renowned people, including the members of the newly-constituted Administrator Advisory Council, bureaucrats, politicians, industrialists, doctors, academicians and media were seen feasting their palate with millets delicacies, including Little Millet Kheer (kutki ki kheer), Ragi Halwa, and the Steamed Ragi Dumplings.

Calling upon all to popularize millets, making a beginning with their own kitchen, the Governor shared the millet popularization and promotion initiatives in Chandigarh. Jowar and Bajra have been incorporated in the Supplementary Nutrition Programme for the beneficiaries of all 450 Anganwadi Centres. Presently, Khichri and Dalia of millets are being provided in the form of ‘hot cooked meal’ to the beneficiaries, he said.

He said that Anganwadi workers are mobilizing community members on regular intervals by organizing stalls of millet recipes’ demonstration. During POSHAN Maah-2022, more than 200 programmes or awareness activities were organized at Anganwadi Centres for demonstrations of Millets recipes.

However, states can add more blocks to the programme later.

The museum is a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of the Travancore kingdom which lasted for 650 years till the end of the 19th century. It had been the Central Vernacular Records Office since 1887 before becoming a museum.