BHU Mahila Mahavidalya witness “Shree anna”: the Millets Fest food

Nutritive Millet Recipes took Center Stage at BHU Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Workshop which is being organized by Department of Home Science. It is a three days workshop entitle  "Shree Anna": the millet food fest,  from December 21-23, 2023. The workshop will include Demonstration & Cooking of Nutritive Recipes of Millets, Lecture cum demonstration on methods of packaging and sale. The fest was inaugurated by Prof. Rita Singh, Principal and the occasion was graced by the presence of Prof. A K Nema (Dean of students), Prof. Sanjay Kumar (HOD, Physics),Prof Shah and Dr, Seema Tiwari (MMV hostel coordinator).

Prof. Rita Singh gave her  blessings to the students and requested them to learn and adopt these practices in order to develp healthy food habits for themselves and for their family.  She also emphsised on the relevance of millets by sharing the importance of  Internation Year of Millets  and the vision of Prime minster Shri Narendra Modi ji to promote our heritage through millets.
Convenor of the workshop Prof Mukta singh said that this workshop is an attempt to support Skill India Mission by developing Entrepreneurial Skills among the students by providing training in the production and marketing of Millets food products.
Convenor Prof. Kalpna Gupta stated that the whole workshop group is developed in four sub-groups, and there are eight participants in each group. Along with students one staff from mess (Mess Maharaj of MMV hostel) were also included in each group so that they can learn and make these recipes in their mess for students at mass level.
The workshop will end on December 23, 2023 with an Exhibition cum sale where the Participants will exhibit these products and sell the products prepared during workshop. The Organizing team includes, Prof Neelam Shrivastava (Student Advisor), Prof Lalita Vatta,  Dr. Puspha Kumari, Dr. Sukanya Chakravorty, Dr. Prashansa Sharma and the research scholars of Department of Home science