Chandigarh,24.07.19-Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh in collaboration with Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, NINE (PGIMER, Chandigarh) and Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for women (Chandigarh) is organizing a workshop entitled “Capacity building of stakeholders like medical officer, medical students, paramedical staff and others on food safety to enriched health related microenvironment of street food vendors” on 25th July 2019 (Thursday) at 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at NINE, auditorium, PGIMER Chandigarh. The workshop is funded by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
The aim of the workshop is to sensitize all key stakeholders regarding role of National Urban Livelihoods Mission (GOI initiative) in improving social status of street food vendors. It also aims to assess the current food safety scenario in Chandigarh and to formulate policies related to food safety to make it a safe food town.
The workshop will be attended by more than 100 participants. These will include medical officers, doctors, town vending committee members, medical/ nursing/ food technology students, paramedical staff and street food vendors.
A ‘smart food cart’ has also been designed as a part of a related project keeping in view the FSSAI guidelines. Chief Guest Sh. K. K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MC Chandigarh along with Dr. Amarjeet Singh (Professor, Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh) will showcase the cart during the event. The cart will be pilot tested in Chandigarh and after taking the feedback of the street food vendors it will be remodeled (if required) and launched in the tri-city.
The technical sessions will be taken by the experts from various fields.
Dr. Debdulal Saha, Assistant Professor, TISS, Guwahati Campus will give his expert views over the “Current scenario of Street Food Vendors in India”.
Ms. Sakshi, FSSAI, New Delhi will emphasize on the Role of FSSAI in improving status of street food hygiene at national level.
Dr. Puja Dudeja, Professor, AFMC, Pune share the highlights of her PhD work on food handlers training on food safety at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Arun Kumar Singh, TL, Egis, Smart City Ltd. will share his views regarding “Potential of Developing Vending Zones in context of SMART CITY Mission”.
Mr. Vivek Trivedi, Social Development Officer, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh –cum- Research Fellow, CSW, PU Chandigarh will explain the Bye Laws-The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)-The Chandigarh experience & initiative of MCC.
Mrs. Sunita Malhotra, Chief Dietitian, PGIMER, Chandigarh will highlight the Dietician’s Role in managing the Nutrition issues concerning street food.
Dr. Geeta Mehra, Assistant Professor, Food Science, MCM-DAV will talk on the main findings of her Deptt of Biotechnology project, i.e., “Demonstration using Foldscope: A frugal scientific tool for training Street Food Vendors”
Mr Vivek, a FOSTAC trainer hired by the Hindustan Lever Pvt Ltd will impart Food safety training to the street vendors.
Mr. Ravinder and his team from Rudra Theatre Company will present a nukkad naatak on the issue.
Dr Amarjeet Singh, Dr Sonu Goel, Dr. Pushkar , Dr Ishwarpreet from Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health are coordinating the workshop.
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