Sharad Pawar, Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing will inaugurate National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) at Kundli, Haryana, on November 7, 2012.
NIFTEM has been conferred deemed university status. The institute will begun its first academic session this summer. It will confer B Tech (food technology and management), M Tech and Ph D (food technology and management).
One important aspect of its functioning is that it has ‘theme centres’ on different sectors such as dairying, cereal-based products, animal protein, beverages, confectionery, and fruit and vegetable-based foods. There are also themes cutting across these sectors, such as management, packaging, food standards and testing. NIFTEM is expected to work actively in setting food standards, businesses incubation and information sharing.