Certificate course on sweet making technology soon

Updated on: Thursday, August 04, 2011

For those having an appetite to prepare different sweets here's a good news - a certificate course on sweet making technology, the first of its kind in the country, will be launched in Orissa soon in collaboration with Jadavpur University of Kolkata.

"We have already got the approval from State Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training," said Prasant Kumar Kar, a famed rasgoola maker of Cuttack district and founder of Bikalananda Kar Memorial Trust, Salipur.

A total of 64 skilled sweet makers would be trained in sweet making by Bikalananda Kar Industrial Training Centre, he added.

"A large number of traditional sweets are now extinct. We will try to revive them through this institute," its principal Bibhuti Bhushan Patra said, adding the students would also be trained to prepare specific sweets for people suffering from different diseases.

"We are already making sweets for diabetic patients." The sweet trade has a big future in the country, he said.

Utpal Raychoudhury, Professor, Food Technology department of Jadavpur University said there are about 500 to 600 varieties of sweets across India and the students would be trained in both modern and traditional methods of sweet making.

Good students are not joining the sweet trade due to lack of adequate technology and the new institute would fill the gap.

Students who pass out from the institute would be given diploma in sweet technology by Jadavpur University, he added.

Certificate course on sweet making technology soon

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