Srinagar: Director School Education Kashmir Dr. G.N. Itoo Thursday inaugurated a 10-Day Training program for Master Trainers for Mid-Day Meal (MDM) cooks from 10 Districts of the Kashmir Division at Institute of Hotel Management Rajbagh.
On the occasion, DSEK, said after completing this training program this group shall impart training to the cooks in their respective Districts and thus all the 14000 cooks working in all the Districts of the Division including Leh and Kargil will be trained. He said during the training program these cooks shall be made acquainted with all the aspects of the kitchen i.e. from cleanliness to different methods of cooking. He added that during the training program the top performing cooks shall be awarded by the Department.
Meanwhile, Principal of the Institute Qazi Shabir said these Cooks shall be given practical training in the Institute and they shall be also taught different methods of cooking, methods of retaining the nutritional value of food and presentation of the cooked food.
On the occasion, Joint Director Education Central, Syed Abid Hussain, Joint Director SSA H.R. Pakhru, Deputy Director Planning Muhammad Yousuf Rather, Assistant Director Planning Muhammad Ishaq and Media Coordinator Fayaz Ahmad Fayaz were also present.
After the inaugural function DSEK visited the training classrooms of the Institute in order to take a stock of the training process.





