Clean Street Food Project Launched

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

With a view to raise the safety standards of foods sold on streets across the capital city of New Delhi, the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare J P Nadda launched Project ‘Clean Street Food’ in the presence of Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), on Sunday.

The project of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) aims at to raise the safety standards of foods sold on streets across the capital city of New Delhi by training 20,000 roadside vendors on aspects of health and hygiene, in the first phase, Bureaucracy Today has learnt.
As part of Project Clean Street Food, FSSAI will partner with the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship to train street food vendors at more than 40 centres across Delhi under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) category of the Government’s flagship skills training scheme- Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY).

 

Source: Bureaucracy Today (link opens in a new window)

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