Uttarakhand Secretariat and Dehradun District Jail bag FSSAI "Right Campus" certification for safe and healthy food standards

Food Safety Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has declared the Uttarakhand Secretariat premises and the Dehradun district jail as “Its Right Campus” for providing safe, healthy, and environmentally better food.

Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi presented the certificate, issued by the Government of India, to the secretary of the state secretariat administration and the DIG of the district jail, Suddhonwala, Dehradun, at a function organized on the premises of the state secretariat on Thursday.

Chief Secretary Raturi appreciated the secretariat administration as well as the authorities concerned of the district jail for this achievement, according to a press release, issued by the state’s Information and Public Relations department. She also expressed her best wishes to all persons who provide catering services like “Indira Amma Bhojanalaya” and GMVN canteen on the secretariat premises. She said one must live up to the standards of maintaining their services to provide safe and hygienic food every day.


She further added the state secretariat is an exemplary place where people from different parts of the state visit. The certificate “Its Right Campus” will become an example for other institutions across the state. She said similarly it is top priority of the state government to availability of food items as per the food safety standard in jails located in different parts of the state.

FSSAI has recently taken an initiative to ensure availability of food items as per the standard of the food safety at all such workplaces where people visit at least once in a day for breakfast or dinner. In this regard, food safety audit of catering services, which are provided on the secretariat premises and inside the district jail was done under the aegis of the state’s food and rug administration. Food handlers, associated with the catering services, were given food-safety-based “FoSTac”.

FSSAI has authorized experienced institutions like academy of management studies for training, and U.R.S certification for audit works. No cost was incurred by the jail administration in this process.

At the function, senior officers, including additional secretary Anuradha Pal and DIG (Jail) Dadhiram Maurya, were present at the function.