With
the objective of making India hunger-free by 2020, the Centre announced on June
8, 2012 the launch of the country’s first Food Bank in New Delhi as part of the
India Food Banking Network (IFBN). The announcement was made by Dr. Sam Pirroda,
Adviser to the Prime Minister, and Ms. Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Minister of
Delhi.
Dr. Pirtoda described the Food Bank as an effort to bring the government,
private sector and NGOs together to fight hunger and malnutrition in the
country. Noting that food banks are operational in more than 30 nations
globally, he highlighted that these banks were being set up to help create a
converging space for the government, the corporates and civil society
organizations to channel their key capabilities towards a common goal :
development through hunger relief management.
The operating procedure of the food bank will be simple. On receiving
information regarding a donor, or on being contacted by a donor who wants to
offer food, the Food Bank would contact the logistics partner to pick up the
donated products from the donor location and deliver them to a warehouse. The
warehouse would serve a number of institutional feeding programmers. The food
products would then be collected by organizations running feeding programmes
from the Delhi Food Bank warehouse, to aid their beneficiaries.
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