Official Website of West Bengal Correctional Services, India - Prisoners’ Children in Correctional Homes

Scale Of Diet For Child Staying With Mother :

The scale of diet for infants and the children aged from 0 year to 6 years will be as follows:

1	2	3	4	5	6
Up to 6 months	Food Groups	Food Item	6-12 months	1-3 Years	4-6 Years
Exclusive breast feeding. If for some reason, the mother can not feed the baby, undiluted fresh cowmilk of 600 ml shall be provided	Cereals	Rice, Atta, Chira, Muri, Suji, Dalia, Bread etc.	45 grms.	120 grms	210 grms.
	Pulses	Musur Dal, Moong Dal, Sattu etc.	15 gms.	30 gms.	45 gms.
	Milk	Milk	Breast Milk & other milk 200 ml/500ml respectively	500 ml.	500 ml.
	Roots and Tubers	Potato, Carrot, Onion etc.	50 gms.	50 gms.	100 gms.
	Green leafy vegetables	Notay Saag, Palang Saag etc.	25 gms.	50 gms.	50 gms.
	Other vegetables	Bean, Papaya, Red Pumpkin	25 gms.	50 gms.	50 gms.
	Flesh foods	Fish, Meat, Egg.		25 gms. Fish in place of 15 gms. Pulses 2 days per week, ½ egg in place of 30 gms. Pulses 1 day per week.	50 gms. Fish in place of gms. Pulses days per week and egg in place of 30 gms. pulses 1 day per week.
	Fruit	Banana, Orange	100 gms.	100 gms.	100 gms.
	Sugar	Velly goor/ Sugar	25 gms.	25 gms.	30 gms.
	Fat & Oil	Oil, Butter etc.	10 gms.	20 gms.	25 gms.

Apart from the ICDS centres there are schools in the correctional homes where the children are imparted non-formal education.
Steps have been taken for admission of prisoners’ children in mainstream schools outside the correctional home where they are going regularly and return to their mother in correctional home after school hours. Metamorphosis, Issue 12/Page-6