Department of Food Technology (SALS) organized workshop on food entrepreneurship on 7 September 2022 in National nutrition week. Every year first week of September, has been celebrated as National nutrition week in the country with an aim to providing knowledge about nutrition, healthy life styles and eating habits. The theme of national nutrition week this year is ‘celebrate a world of flavors’ with a motive to encourage all the flavours used in different cuisine all around the world. On this occasion workshop cum food stalls were inaugurated by Shri Jitender Joshi, Chancellor, Uttaranchal University, Prof. Satbir Singh Sehgal, Vice President, Prof. Dharam Buddhi, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abhishek Joshi, Director, SA & IT, Prof. Ajay Singh, Dean, SALS, Dr. Rajeev Kumar, HoD, Food Technology by lighting lamp. More than seventy five students participated in food stall competition by displaying food stalls. All stalls were based on nutritional based themes in which dishes of various states like North east dishes, Kerala dishes, Andhra Pradesh dishes, Punjabi and Chinese dishes. Karan Arora, Radha Khirwar, and Susmita Nama Das, M.Sc. Food Technology, 3 rd Semester students rewarded as winner of the event. Himanko Gogoi, B. Pharma, 1 st semester declared as first runner up and Ayushi Bhaduri, Suporna Chakraborty, and Tamanna Rana B.Sc. (H) Food Technology, 5 th Semester got second runner up position in the event. The event was coordinated by Dr. Rajeev Kumar (HoD), Dr. Arun Gupta, Mr. Yogesh Awasthi, Mr. Kamran Chaudhary, Mr. Junaid Aman, Ms. Anuska Pallavi under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ajay Singh, Dean, SALS. More than fifty faculty members including Dr. V.K. Srivastava, Dr. Nishesh Sharma, Dr. Bharti Ramola, Dr. Waseem Ahmed, Dr. Amit Bhatt, and Campus Director were present on this occasion. Student’s actively participated in the event and shown interest in promotion of entrepreneurship through nutritional foods.
