Bill in RS to give financial autonomy to 2 food technology institutes

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Feb 13 2019 | 4:40 PM IST

The government Wednesday introduced a bill in Rajya Sabha to declare two institutes of food technology in Haryana and Tamil Nadu as institutions of national importance and enabling them to provide financial autonomy for starting new courses and research.

The National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2019, introduced by Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal in the Upper House, seeks to confer the status of 'Institutions of National Importance' to National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) at Kundli, Haryana, and the Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT) at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu,

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First Published: Feb 13 2019 | 4:40 PM IST

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