Promote Indian cuisine on international platform by enrolling yourself in this new Indian Culinary Institute

New Delhi, April 28: Indian art and culture is very renowned and famous all over the world. Similarly Indian food also inherits special status in people’s heart as the taste of the spices and the variety in dishes makes the cuisine stand out of the box. Sighting the popularity and promote Indian cuisine, Ministry of Tourism has decided to open doors for ambitious culinary institute aimed at promoting Indian cuisine as a niche tourism product.

 

The Indian Culinary Institute (ICI), with its campuses in Noida and Tirupati, inaugurated by Minister of Tourism K J Alphons today, will offer diplomas as well as under graduate and post graduate degrees to research in culinary arts.

The Indian Culinary Institute's (ICI) Noida campus built in five-acre land with a total cost of Rs 98 crore would be a training ground to groom top-of-the-line chefs of international standards, a statement from the Ministry of Tourism said, adding that the other campus was being set up in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati.

The institute will also have fully equipped kitchen labs, micro biology labs, cuisine theatres, training restaurants, fully equipped class rooms, library and a modern hostel with facilities for 400 students.

The Minister of Tourism Alphons said, "Tourism has grown tremendously in the last year for which country's best and varied dishes have played a great role. This institute which has been conceived with the guidance and suggestions of great chefs from across the world will come out as one among the best in the world."

At present, there is a lack of state-of-the-art training grounds in the country to groom top-of- the-line chefs of international standards, it said. To fill this void, the Indian Culinary Institute would provide the appropriate training platform at par with the elite chef schools functioning in different parts of the developed world.