Indian Culinary Institute inaugurated in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the Indian Culinary Institute (ICI) in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

• It is promoted by Union Ministry of Tourism.
• The ICI building was designed by National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC).

About the Indian Culinary Institute (ICI):

• The main objective of ICI is to institutionalize a mechanism to support efforts intended to preserve, document, promote and disseminate Indian Cuisine.
• It also seeks to meet the sectoral requirement of specialists specific to Indian Cuisine and promote the cuisine as a niche tourism product.
• It will be a centre of excellence that will offer structured regular programmes of study specific to culinary arts and culinary management.
• It will also promote research and innovation, organize demand driven certificate and diploma courses.
• It will also document and create data base specific to Indian cuisine and commission studies and survey on the cuisine.
• It will also provide appropriate training platform at par with elite "Chef Schools" functioning in different parts of the developed world.

One must know:

• At present In India, there is no formal education specific to Indian cuisine or culinary art.
• Besides, there was no regular credible institutional source at the apex level for supply of cuisine specialists to the sector.
• There was also no institutional mechanism to document and disseminate knowledge related to cuisine and gastronomy.
• There is also a dearth of state-of-the-art training ground to groom top-of-the-line chefs of international standards.
• ICI will help to remove all these bottlenecks.

Question:

Q. Where has Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the Indian Culinary Institute (ICI)?
a. Agra, Uttar Pradesh
b. Amritsar, Punjab
c. Goa, Maharashtra
d. Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh