Clean And Pure Food To Be Made Available On Chardham Route : Uttarakhand CM Dhami

This time, pilgrims will not only get clean and pure food in the hotels and dhabas on the Chardham Yatra route, but the hoteliers will also try to reduce the use of oil, salt and sugar in the food as per the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Along with this, pilgrims will also be encouraged to prevent single-use plastic. For this, the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department has started a wide-scale dialogue and training program with the hotels and food businessmen on the Yatra route even before the start of the Yatra.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has instructed all the departments to conduct the Yatra on the theme of Green Chardham Yatra. In this sequence, the Food Safety Drug Administration Department is organizing training workshops with hoteliers and food businessmen in major cities of the Yatra route. Commissioner Food Safety and Drug Administration Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar said that in these workshops, hoteliers are being appealed to reduce the use of oil, salt and sugar in their food. This will be especially convenient for travelers suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure. Also, in the sequence of Eat Right Campaign, hotels are being asked to make edible oil available for making biofuel instead of using it more than three times. Dr. R. Rajesh Kumar said that hoteliers are also being encouraged to cooperate in environmental protection by discouraging the use of single-use plastic like water bottles, wrappers. Deputy Commissioner Headquarters Ganesh Kandwal said that in line with the departmental instructions, training programs have been completed so far with hoteliers as well as concerned departmental officers in Rishikesh, Srinagar, Rudraprayag. Before the start of the Yatra, training programs will be completed in some more places including Uttarkashi, Chamba and Haridwar. Along with this, local food products are also being asked to be made available to promote millets.

This time we are preparing with the resolve of Green Chardham Yatra. Our endeavour is that not only pilgrims get pure food and clean environment, but also the problem of single-use plastic should not arise at our holy pilgrimage sites due to the Yatra. We are working on the principle of reduce, reuse and recycle of single-use plastic. In this, we need the cooperation of everyone from pilgrims to food traders to local people, said Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.