IITGN bags Eat Right Campus Award for third time

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has certified IITGN as the ‘Eat Right Campus’ with a five-star rating for a period of two years, i.e., till November 2024. 

The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has bagged the Eat Right Campus Award with a five-star rating from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for the third time in a row. 

FSSAI has certified IITGN as the ‘Eat Right Campus’ with a five-star rating for a period of two years, i.e. till November 2024. The certificate is awarded after third-party auditing of all messes and eateries. The audit is done based on a checklist of the following five parameters-- compliance to food safety and hygiene; healthy diets; food waste management; promotion of local and seasonal foods on campus; and promotion and awareness on food safety and healthy diets in and around campus. 

IITGN one of the first institutes to receive award 

IITGN was one of the first educational institutes in India to receive the Eat Right Campus Award with a five-star rating, when it was first introduced in 2019. Mamta Bhambhani, a first-year BTech student in Electrical Engineering, said, “The food is pretty good as I eat at my home, opposite to what one generally hears about the food in hostel messes. The menu changes every time, which is also interesting instead of eating the same food every day.” 

Attributing the award to the teamwork of all stakeholders, Prof Sivapriya Kirubakaran, Dean of Student Affairs, IITGN, said, “Getting this recognition for the third consecutive time not only gives each one of us a sense of fulfilment but it also reflects on our sustained teamwork.” 

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