Current Affairs :India's First Food Bank in New Delhi

India's First Food Bank in New Delhi
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.