{"id":233718,"date":"2023-03-23T19:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=233718"},"modified":"2023-03-23T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:12:22","slug":"indian-army-to-reintroduce-millets-in-rations-of-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-to-reintroduce-millets-in-rations-of-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army to reintroduce millets in rations of soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndian Army to reintroduce millets in rations of soldiers\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>23rd March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Army has decided to reintroduce millet flour in the rations of soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why has the Indian Army decided to introduce millet in the rations of soldiers?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Army <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has decided to introduce millets in rations to promote the consumption of grains in the backdrop of the United Nations General Assembly declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This landmark decision will ensure troops are supplied with native and traditional grains after over half a century when these were discontinued (in 1966) in favour of wheat flour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three popular varieties of millets flour \u2014 bajra, jowar and ragi \u2014 will be issued to troops, duly considering their preference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grains will be procured and issued to the troops based on options they exercise and the quantity they demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the other steps being taken by the Army to promote millets?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Army has issued advisories across commands to ensure that millets are used extensively in organized functions, such as in Barakhanas, as well as in canteens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Army is also conducting centralized training of chefs to prepare delicacies made with millets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Know your Millet\u2019 awareness campaigns are also being conducted in educational institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Army to reintroduce millets in rations of soldiers\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd March 2023 What is the News? The Indian Army has decided to reintroduce millet flour in the rations of soldiers. Why has the Indian Army decided to introduce millet in the rations&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-to-reintroduce-millets-in-rations-of-soldiers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Army to reintroduce millets in rations of soldiers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-233718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}