Food tech institute launched

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), a deemed university, at Kundli on the Delhi-Haryana border in the presence of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat and NIFTEM Director Ajit Kumar on Wednesday.

NIFTEM, set up on an area of 100 acre at a cost of Rs 480 crore, has been conceived by the Union government as an international center of excellence in food sciences and technology.