Kitchen Garden Antargat Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav Paripatra 30/06/2021
The HRD Ministry has issued guidelines to all schools directing all schools to set up a kitchen garden and instructions to this effect have been issued by the Centre to all the states and union territories.The HRD Ministry has directed all schools to set up a kitchen garden and instructions to this effect have been issued by the Centre to all the states and union territories in October. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has issued guidelines for developing and maintaining kitchen gardens in all schools, both in urban and rural areas.

Kitchen Garden Antargat Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav Paripatra 30/06/2021
Why are schools directed to set up kitchen gardens?
The exercise is aimed at improving nutrition in schools, inculcating habits among children in an era of rapid urbanization, and mounting environmental issues.

Kitchen Garden Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav Paripatra 30/06/2021: The guidelines lay emphasis on a perception that kitchen garden which is being referred to as a school nutrition garden can be set up anywhere, even in a school in a crowded urban area.

Kitchen Garden Antargat Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav Paripatra 30/06/2021

What instructions have been sent to schools for setting up kitchen gardens?
The HRD Ministry has sent instructions to Chief Secretaries and Education Secretaries of all states under the guidelines for School Nutrition (Kitchen) Gardens to issue necessary instructions to the state/UT for setting up of kitchen gardens in all schools.

As per the guidelines, provision of seeds, saplings, organic manure, training and technical assistance under the scheme can be obtained by tying up with agencies like Krishi Vigyan Kendras, Department of Agriculture/Horticulture, Food and Nutrition Board, state agriculture universities and forest department.