Food Craft Institute
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Delhi Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology formerly known as
Food Craft Institute presently housed in Old Gargi College Building, Lajpat
Nagar –IV, New Delhi- 110024 was conceived and set up by the Central Ministry
of Tourism, Government of India in the year 1979 in collaboration with
Delhi
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Administration.The Food Craft Institute started functioning from the year 1983.
Administration and financial control of the institute for first five years
remained with the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India. Seed Capital for opening
of the institute and Revenue expenditure for running the institute were taken
care by the Central Ministry of Tourism (GOI) for running five streams of Hotel
and Hospitality related disciplines of one & half year trade diploma
courses. The courses affiliated to the Board of Technical Education, Delhi. On
completion of 5 years of operation in 1988, the Central Government transferred
the assets and liabilities of this Food Craft Institute to the Delhi
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With the growth of the Tourism and Hospitality Industry during the previous
five year plans and expected turn around in the current five year
plan the Craft level institute was upgraded to full-fledged diploma level
w.e.f. 1998. The Institute has further been upgraded to three year Degree level
institute from the academic session 2002-03. The Degree course is affiliated to
the National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology an an apex
autonomous organisation set up by the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India.
Under the Degree programme manpower is being trained for the supervisory and
management level.
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Upon
up-gradation of the institute the Govt. of NCT of
Delhi allotted 5.06 acres of land for construction
of institute's administrative and academic block;
advance training center, student's schlor's block
(Hostel) and staff accommodations. Project
management has been awarded to PWD, GNCTD which has
phased the entire construction and development of
the institute in two phases. Phase-I includes
academic and administrative block to house the
following facility:
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Basic Training Kitchen (two)
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Quantity Food Kitchen (one)
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Advance Training Kitchen (one)
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Studio Kitchen & Research Lab (one)
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Bakery and Patisserie Lab (two)
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Confectionery Lab (One)
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Basic Training Restaurant (one)
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Advance Training Restaurant (one)
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Language Lab (one)
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MIS and Computer lab (one)
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Housekeeping Lab (one)
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Training Laundry and Linen Room (one)
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Library and Resource Centre (one)
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Front Office Lab (one)
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Training Guest Room (twin and suite room- tow)
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Phase -1 of the building, which includes the academic and
administrative block, is nearing completion. However, water, sewerage and
electricity are yet to be
provided by PWD. The building will be ready
for occupation only after furnishing of administrative block, classrooms including equipping
the labs (Training Kitchens, Bakery & Confectionery,
Studio Kitchen, Housekeeping – Laundry, linen
room, Restaurant, Library and Resource Centre, Computer
and MIS labs, language labs etc:) Provisions for all
these have not been made in PE-1 prepared earlier by
PWD. PWD in spite of repeated requests
has not prepared supplementary PE-1 for administrative approval and expenditure
sanction and for EFC and SFC. Moreover, it
is felt that PWD does not
seem to have expertise and capabilities for carrying
out these supplementary additional ties. Under the circumstance the
Executive committee of the Board of Board of
Governors have decided to request the Board to authorize
DTTDC to carry out the work with
the support of Architect and Consultant already appointed by
PWD. for the project and also hire a
Consultants on retainer ship basis to do facility
and utility planning for academic, administrative, data and telecommunication networking
as well as for It applications to complete the
project on turn key basis for completion and
occupation of the building (Phase-I
of the project ).
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The above training
facilities will require to be equipped with the
latest equipment as per the norms prescribed by the
National Council for Hotel Management (NCHM) and All
India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
However, more modern equipment are being proposed to
be added to the infrastructure over and above NCHM
and AICTE list to offer Master, Ph. D. and MBA
programme in Hospitality.
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Along with the administrative, block meeting and
conference room and other students, facilities for
co-curricular and extra curricular activities will
be required to be equipped, It is also proposed to
have IT applications for bringing transparency and
e-governance in academic and administrative
activities for which customized software will be
required. Support in terms of capital and revenue
form plan funds will be needed from time to time for
infrastructure construction and development during
the 10th Five Year Plan. Initial capital
expenditure from plan fund and for revenue
expenditure support from plan fund will also be
required during the incubation period of the
institute for around 4-5 years. The institute will
become self-sustaining after increase of intake and
introduction of few nouvel courses required by the
hospitality and allied industry, this will create
job opportunities to the youngsters joining the
various courses offered at the institute and support
the working executive of the industry. |
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Phase –II of the building, which comprises of the Training Center, Scholars
block and Dwelling units, are also proposed to be taken up for
implementation jointly with DTTDC. It is proposed to retain DTTDC as Project
Management Consultant for this purpose.
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