Educational institutes should start courses in food says Harsimrat Kaur Badal
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The Union Minister for Food Processing Industry Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal
today called upon the educational institutes to introduce courses in
food processing in sync with the burgeoning demand and opportunities in
this industry. While inaugurating third international fest of Baba Farid
Group of Institutes, Mrs Badal said that her ministry is setting up
food processing training-cum-business incubation center at PAU Regional
Center in Bathinda, which would train farmers to add value to their food
products. “There is a wide horizon of opportunities in this sector and
educational institutes can immensely contribute by offering courses in
this context,” she said.
Addressing gathering at the institute
she said that the Punjab government’s Save the Daughters Campaign has
found resonance in center government’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
campaign. “The Punjab government’s campaign in saving the girl child has
one a long way in improving state’s sex ratio and today the center
government too has followed it in the form of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
campaign,” she said.
Commending the efforts of Punjab government in improving education in state, she added that Punjab has leaped from 14th
position in India to third in the last seven years. The state
government recruited 65000 teachers and invested crores in creating
infrastructure to raise the standard of education. She added that the
initiative of opening six meritorious schools in state for the needy and
intelligent students has given a new lease of life to the children from
poor families. The state now boasts of nine new universities, 17 new
colleges, IIT, proposed IIM and an education city coming up in 1000
acres of land in Chandigarh.
Answering a media query on the issue of
drugs in state, the Union Minister said that need of hour was to
formulate a uniform drug policy which was equally applicable in state.
She said that the narcotics were neither grown nor manufactured in
Punjab and instead the state had become innocent victim of wrong
allegations.
Speaking against the social evil of
female feticide she said that the daughters have every right to take
birth, have the right nutrition, study and progress ahead in society.
She advocated providing the best of opportunities to our daughters so
that they could move ahead in life. She said like the womb, the mother
earth too needs to be protected and all of us should take onus of taking
care of at least one tree every year.
Prominent among others present included
Chief Parliamentary Secretary Mr Mantar Singh Brar, Manish Kumar OSD to
the Union Minister, Deputy Commissioner Dr Basant Garg, SSP Mr Inder
Mohan Singh Bhatti, media advisor to deputy CM Mr Harjinder Sidhu,
managing director Baba Farid Group of Institutes Mr Gurmeet Singh
Dhaliwal, BJP president Mr Gurvinder Singh Bhagta, SDM Bathinda Mr
Damanjit Singh Maan, DDPO Mr Rajinder Batra, SAD press secretary Dr Om
Prakash Sharma and others.
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