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...

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: