Food for Thought: Odisha’s Keonjhar police starts a canteen with a theme on cops in Bollywood

ODISHA’s Keonjhar has a unique canteen now. Named as Cops Bollywood Canteen, this open air canteen inaugurated recently in Reserve Police Line of Keonjhar, has a theme on police in Bollywood, possibly the first of its kind where food, cops and Bollywood go hand-in-hand. IPS Association in a social media post has thanked Superintendent of Police of Keonjhar for creating this hangout place for police personnel to de-stress themselves. Some of the characters choose n in the canteen include…

Food Funda: Sarkari canteen managers, halwai, cooks etc. to get special hotel management skills

North Block canteen before Union Budget in July 2014

IN A new initiative of the Government of India, the staff and officials working in various sarkari canteens including those in the rank of general managers, deputy general managers, managers, manager-cum-accountants, halwai-cum-cooks etc. will be imparted special training by the Institute of Hotel Management, in an apparent attempt to improve the quality of the canteens spreading across Central government ministries. The DoPT in an office memorandum dated July 10 asked...

What does director (canteens) under DoPT ask fellow bureaucrats to do on Swachh Bharat?

AS THE government's cleanliness drive titled Swachh Bharat Mission, launched on October 2, 2014, with lots of enthusiasm seems somewhat slowing down, fresh circulars are being issued among the Central government employees to step up the process, at least in their neighbourhood. Director (Canteens) who comes under the DoPT wrote on Tuesday to all…

Food For Thought: What’s Green Book in Government? Hint: Think during lunch

EACH central government office invariably has a canteen on its own. But when the government wanted to change its managing committee, as it did recently through an office memorandum dated August 14, 2013, it had to follow the Great Indian Sarkari procedures before changing what’s called the Green Book. Here are five things that Green Book contains: