Student design - eco - food cart

Students of Jamia Millia Islamia have built an eco-friendly food vending cart which has provisions for waste disposal and solar power generation. The cart was one of the submit showcased at the Festival of Innovations at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.  The project, which the university is in process of patenting, was among the six entries selected out of 114 sent for presentation at the recently concluded Festival.

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mega food parks

42 mega food parks to start operations by 2019: Harsimrat Kaur Badal 

The Mega Food Park Scheme, based on the cluster approach, is modelled on hub-and-spoke architecture, which follows principles from the spoke-hub distribution paradigm.

It aims at facilitating the establishment of a strong food processing industry backed by an efficient supply chain, which includes collection centres, a central processing centre (CPC) and cold chain infrastructure. 

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mega food parks

NEW DELHI: The government is likely to soon announce allocation of 17 mega food parks, entailing a total investment of Rs 2,100 crore, to various firms for development.

A mega food park provides various facilities to food processors, farmers, retailers and exporters, helping achieve faster growth of food processing industries.

According to sources, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is likely to announce next week the sanctioning of these 17 mega food parks in states including Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Odisha, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Bihar.

The total investment in these mega food parks is estimated at Rs 2,100 crore, of which the government's contribution would be to the tune of Rs 850 crore, they added.

In these mega food parks, 50,000 people are expected to get employment while 80,000 farmers would also be benefitted.

Under the scheme (2008-09) of mega food parks, the Food Processing Ministry had sanctioned 42 projects throughout the country. Of these, 25 parks have already been allocated.

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Travels Through The Tamil Kitchen

"She carries a note book and a measuring tape to kitchens to measure things, including stainless-steel cooking pots of various shapes. She sketches, makes floor plans. After visiting 20 kitchens, she is compelled to view them as landscapes. They are often like a whole village, she says, the base for people to float in and out. They open to people outside family, they tell you how people live. “Cooking and living are combined in a private Indian family kitchen.” The Indian kitchen is flexible, meant to include family / friends, unlike Western ones which are closed, functional, modern, with all amenities."

Saito is researching for her book Travels Through The Tamil Kitchen to be published by Tara Books. 

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