Mysuru: Coming to the rescue of flood-affected people in Kodagu and the rest of Karnataka, city-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a premier Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory in India, will send ready-to-eat food materials.

Teams at the premier institute are working round-the-clock to prepare food for the affected people, said CFTRI Director Dr. K.S.M.S. Raghavarao. 

A note from the CFTRI said that Mysuru is sending relief food to Hassan. The meal packets will contain a total of 4,000 chapathis (2,500 meals), 70 kilogram of chutney, 100 kg of rusk (1,000 meals), 6,000 bottles of drinking water and about 300 kg (3,000 meals) of ready-to-consume  Avalakki mix. 

“This is in response to the request from the Deputy Commissioner of Hassan. The consignment is planned for despatch on August 10 (today) and further consignments will be sent on demand from the flood-affected regions,” said the note. 

CFTRI has been supplying food to the affected people in calamities since Tsunami in 2004. It had sent food and relief material to Kerala during floods in 2018 and to flood victims of Uttarakhand in 2013. 

The most recent disaster was last year’s flood in Kerala and Kodagu and Bhubaneswar during Fani cyclone. Relief foods were prepared at four of its pilot food plants which are otherwise facilities for demonstration on how its various food technologies can be commercialised.