Tuesday, 30 July 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The education minister Dhan Singh Rawat has said that the educational institutes of the State will be connected with the ‘ Eat Right campaign’.
The minister chaired a review meeting of the Food security and Drugs Administration (FDA) department here on Monday. He said that in canteens of all the government universities, colleges, medical colleges, residential schools and District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) the hygienic food system will be set in place. This will ensure healthy and safe food for the students and trainees.
The minister said that the FDA should prepare a concrete plan for training within a month for this. Rawat said that food streets will be developed in Tarla Nagal ( Dehradun), Main market Rudrapur, Tikonia chauraha in Nainital and Mayapur in Haridwar under the healthy and hygienic food streets programme. The local food prepared from local millets will be encouraged in these streets.
In the meeting the officers of FDA gave a presentation regarding the activities of the department t .
The additional commissioner FDA Tajber Singh Jaggi, joint director Dr R K Singh and others attended the meeting.
