Goa hotel management project to get Swiss direction

The central government-funded project is likely to be completed in a year-and-a-half

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Goa Tourism has chalked out plans to tie up with an international institution to operate the institute of hotel management and catering technology that is coming up at Farmagudi. The central government-funded project is likely to be completed in a year-and-a-half.

A tourism official was quoted saying that “a Switzerland-based institute was suggested by tourism stakeholders, and since we wanted to have an institute of repute on board, we initiated talks with the foreign institute”.

The agreement with the institute, the officer said, will be signed before the project is completed so that it can be commissioned without delay.

Some of the conditions of the agreement will be that a certain number of seats be reserved for Goan students, concession in fees, and scholarships to local students, besides adding terms for revenue-sharing. The institute, the officer said, offers scholarships to its students in Switzerland and it is likely that the same will happen with the Goa institute. “We don’t want to make money out of the project. Our plan is that Goan students should benefit. The government wants an agency to run the institute as it does not want to incur recurring expenses to operate it,” he added.

The project was to receive funds from the Centre, but its progression was delayed on several counts, and finally, it was annulled. More than a year ago, the state government resurrected the project

The government will hand over the completed structure to the selected institute. It will be the responsibility of the institute to arrange all facilities, including the kitchen training, he said. The project was sanctioned INR 30 crore under the Diamond Jubilee grant of INR 300 crore that the state received from the Centre..

The plan to set up a culinary training institute at Farmagudi started about eight years ago, and the foundation stone for the same was also laid. The project was to receive funds from the Centre, but its progression was delayed on several counts, and finally, it was annulled. More than a year ago, the state government resurrected the project.

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