Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 16: Madhuban Foods of Jammu origin is providing its catering service for Kailash Yatra pilgrims in China, as the company has been mandated for the same on behalf of the organizers that issue permits to pilgrims and tourists globally.
A robust collaboration has been formed between India, Nepal and China to conduct the pilgrimage season with a never-before experience of ‘sattvic’ food to the lakhs of pilgrims expected this year and onwards and for this Prakash Shreshtha, president AKTON (Association of Kailash Tour Operators) and Managing Director, Explore Kailash Treks Private Limited, Nepal have joined hands with Sumit Partap Gupta, the Managing Director of Madhuban Foods.
Sumit Partap Gupta has experienced the Kailash yatra for several years and is familiar with the difficulties that the operation presents. He is a ‘son of the soil’ from Jammu and explains that the operations are being conducted in harsh weather and hostile terrain. He is constantly travelling the route to ensure that the seven kitchens that undertake the operations are equipped and ready to serve hot and nutritious food to the tired devout, round the clock every day.
Speaking on the issue, Sumit Partap Gupta said, “The cuisine served enroute the Yatra is as per Sattvic culinary norms. All aspects of this cuisine that are being successfully implemented in the Sattvic kitchens of the group at Katra, Gurugram and Shirdi are being implemented with care and perseverance at the kitchens that have been set up in the routes along the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage”.
Gupta further explained that the menus for lunches and dinners at the buffet spreads set up each day for the pilgrims have been planned in such that they replenish the physical strength required for the arduous trek. The team has engaged with team of noted Nutritionists to plan the menus accordingly, so that the pilgrims are not only strengthened mentally to complete the yatra safely, they are also nourished with requisite nutrition essential in the low oxygen high altitude terrain.
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