Dehradun: To ensure secure health and environmentally better food and to follow the standards of hygiene, the Food Safety Standard Authority of India has issued the Eat Right Campus certificate to the State Secretariat Complex and District Jail Complex.
Today, a program was organized in this regard under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Smt Radha Raturi in the auditorium of the State Secretariat. On this occasion, the Chief Secretary duly presented the Eat Right Campus certificate issued by the Government of India to the Secretary of Secretariat Administration Shri Dipendra Chaudhary and Deputy Inspector General Jail. The Chief Secretary praised the Secretariat Administration for this important and effective initiative and efforts made by the Inspector General Jail present in the program for the Eat Right Campus certification.
Smt Raturi congratulated the Food Supervisors of various food services like Indira Amma Bhojanalaya, GMVN Canteen working in the Secretariat premises for this achievement. She said that they should live up to the test of maintaining their services as per the standards of safe and hygienic food every day.
Describing this initiative taken by the Secretariat Administration under the aegis of Food and Drug Administration, Uttarakhand as essential, the Chief Secretary said that the State Secretariat is an exemplary place and people from various places of the state keep coming here, in view of which declaring this campus as Eat Right Campus will set an example for other institutions of the State Government as well.
Similarly, ensuring availability of food items to prisoners as per food safety standards by the canteens and restaurants of jails located in the state is also a matter of top priority for the government. In this direction, the Eat Right Campus certificate issued to District Jail, Sudhowala is an important step.
It is to be noted that the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has started the Eat Right Campus initiative to ensure availability of safe and healthy food items to all such workplaces, where most of the people working there regularly consume at least one snack or meal.
In this regard, under the aegis of Food and Drug Administration, Uttarakhand, food safety audit of all the canteens and other food services operating in the State Secretariat and District Jail Complex, Sudhowala, Dehradun was done recently and food safety based FoSTac was provided to the food handlers working here.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had authorized experienced organizations like Academy of Management Studies for training, URS Certification for audit work and The Red Carpet Venture for conducting this initiative. In this entire process, the State Secretariat and Jail Administration did not have to bear any financial burden and all the expenses were borne by internationally renowned organization Herbalife India under CSR.
During the program, Secretary, Secretariat Administration, Shri Dipendra Chaudhary, IG Smt. Vimala Gunjyal, Additional Secretary Smt. Anuradha Pal, Deputy Inspector General Jail, Shri Dadhiram Maurya, Additional Commissioner, FDA, Shri Tajbar Singh, Shri Ganesh Kandwal, Deputy Commissioner/Nodal Officer Eat Right India, Food Supervisors of Indira Amma Bhojanalaya, GMVN Canteen, Millet Bakery and Anchal Dairy located in the Secretariat premises and training partners authorized by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, food auditors etc. were present.
