Mumbai: Junk food will be wiped out gradually from the  canteen of of 10,000 schools and colleges in Maharashtra. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration, after setting up guidelines for school-college canteens, has launched an awareness campaign to implement it, which aims to promote healthy food.

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In view of the rapid increase of diseases obesity, tooth disease and diabetes in children, the Maharashtra FDA has now issued guidelines for inclusion of healthy food by removing junk food from 10,000 school colleges across the state. By the end of the year, an awareness campaign on healthy food will be launched in children's canteens across the state. The Maharashtra FDA has asked school-college canteens to change their menu and have instructed them to exclude junk food from the school manual.

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Maharashtra is the first state to issue such guidelines and the state government also plans to set up food testing labs in each of the school colleges. Food from high fat, high sugar, high salt in junk food is increasing the risk of diseases in children. Therefore, schools have been asked to change the canteen menu and include a protein-rich nutritional diet according to the FDA's guidelines.