This office memorandum addresses the quality of food served in canteens within Central Government offices. It emphasizes that canteens were established as a welfare measure to provide hygienic and tasty refreshments to employees. The memorandum notes reports of substandard food quality in departmental canteens compared to private alternatives and directs Canteen Management Committees and administrations to ensure the use of branded/genuine products and transparently display the brands of raw materials used. The memorandum is circulated to various ministries, departments, and relevant authorities for compliance.
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No.10/2/2010-Dir.(C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)
Room No.361, 3rd Floor.
Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market.
New Delhi, dated 16th July, 2010
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Providing quality food in Departmental Canteens functioning in Central Government Offices – regarding.
The undersigned is directed to draw attention of the Canteen Management Committees/Administration towards the quality of food being prepared in the canteens, functioning from the Central Government Offices, and to reiterate that the objective of setting up of canteens, as a measure of employee welfare, was to meet the refreshment needs of employees by preparing, under hygienic conditions, tea/snacks, lunch etc. as per the local requirement/taste etc. of the beneficiaries. However, it has been reported that the quality of food, being prepared in the Departmental Canteens, is not of required quality/taste as compared to the private canteens being run parallelly in some Ministry’s/Department’s premises.
- All the concerned authorities are requested to get the quality of eatables ensured by using branded/genuine products, and displaying the brand of raw-materials being used by the Canteens at a place to be noticed by all the beneficiaries.
(Rajiv Manjhi)
Director (Canteens)
Tel: 2462 4893
To:
- All Ministries/Departments of the Government of India. (Director/Dy. Secretaries Incharge, Administrative Division/Wing, as per standard list).
- All Nodal DDOs nominated by the Ministries/Departments
- President’s Sectt., Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi
- Vice-President’s Sectt., Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi
- Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi
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- Comptroller & Auditor General of India, New Delhi.
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Director of Audit, Central Revenue, New Delhi.
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Controller General of Accounts, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi.
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Supreme Court of India, Tilak Marg, New Delhi.
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High Court of Delhi, Sher Shah Road, New Delhi.
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Controller General of Defence Accounts, R.K. Puram, West Block, New Delhi.
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CAO’s Office, Ministry of Defence, DHQ, PO, New Delhi-110011.
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Administrator, all Union Territories as per standard list.
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Technical Director (NIC), Room No.381, Lok Nayak Bhawan, New Delhi.