fssai.gov.in Eat Right Creativity Challenge 2020 : Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

Organisation : Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Contest Name : Eat Right Creativity Challenge 2020
Applicable For : School Students
Contest Dates : 16th October 2020 – 16th December 2020
Website : https://fssai.gov.in/

FSSAI Eat Right Creativity Challenge

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India initiated the Eat Right India Movement in July, 2018.

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The Eat Right India Movement focuses on young people, especially, children as they are the agents of change and are able to influence entire family.

Contest Period

In this context, to spark their creativity and disseminate knowledge in children, the Second Eat Right Creativity Challenge is to be conducted from 16th October 2020 – 16th December 2020. This will encourage the creative talent of our school going children and enable them to develop healthy dietary habits.

Categories

The competition will be conducted for two categories:
(1) Poster making
(2) Photography competition.

The challenge will be digital and has cash rewards for students.

How To Enter?

1. Visit website & register your school on https://fssai.gov.in/CreativityChallenge/registerschoolInput
2. Conduct activities on the themes from the guidelines.
3. Upload the activities on: fssai.gov.in/CreativityChallenge
4. Conduct activity: Points will only be given if the evidence for each activity is uploaded (photo/ document/ video).
5. Create & certify Health and Wellness Coordinator: Points will only be given if the evidence for each HWC is uploaded (HWC certificate).

About Challenge

‘Eat Right India’ movement aims to ensure health and well-being of people by promoting safe food and healthy diets through coordinated multi-sectoral approach. Given that food habits are formed early in life and difficult to change thereafter; focus of Eat Right India is on young people.

Therefore, school is an obvious place where healthy eating habits can be inculcated. Food can even be used as an effective pedagogical tool. Young people are agents of change and their influence on their entire family could be leveraged to change the way people eat.

In this context, the FSSAI had in September, 2017 launched the SNF (Safe and Nutritious Food) @School initiative. Over 2700 schools are currently registered under this initiative. Such schools have trained and certified health and wellness coordinators to promote healthier eating habits amongst school children.

In the above backdrop and as a part of celebrations of 150th year of Mahatma Gandhias birthday, a National Poster Competition is planned.

Through this poster competition, we would unleash creative talent of our young people and engage, excite and enable them to inculcate healthy dietary habits aligned with Gandhiji thoughts on food and nutrition that are now recognised to be based on robust science of nutrition.

This would also help to give a boost to the on-going SNF@School initiative and help many more schools to have a long-term engagement with schools across the country.

Contact

For any clarification you may send an Email to: creativity-challenge@fssai.gov.in