Institute of Hotel Management, Faridabad

Institute of Hotel Management, Faridabad, Haryana, generally known as IHM Faridabad, is a Registered Society under Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and Department of Tourism, Government of Haryana. IHM Faridabad is situated at famous Badkhal Lake Tourist Resort, Faridabad, Haryana. It was previously known by the name of Food Craft Institute (FCI). It was upgraded to an Institute of Hotel Management in 2009 and is affiliated with National Council for Hotel Management, Noida. Now the institute has started his first batch by offering 21 seats. The batch started with nine students.

History

The institute was established in 1989 and started functioning from August 1989.

Award

Institute of Hotel Management was awarded as the ‘Best FCI’ in the country by Sujit Banerjee, secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology for their best performance for academic year 2007-08 at IHM Pusa, New Delhi on 25 March 2009. Principal of the institute, H.S. Dewan received the prize. He has been the principal of Institute of Hotel Management, Faridabad (Formerly Food Craft Institute) since 1992.

Programs

The institute offers the following programs of study:

Industrial training

The students in some courses have undergo a six-month industrial training at a hotel, during their program of study, to get a feel of how the industry functions.

Vegetarian Option

In 2016, a few of the IHMCTANs (Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Jaipur) started giving a hotel management student the option to choose only vegetarian cooking. Earlier, it was compulsory for all IHMCTAN students to learn non-vegetarian cooking. This decision to offer a vegetarian option by IHMCTANs could possibly be the first amongst any of the hospitality training institutes of the world. It is expected that all IHMCTANs, including IHMCTAN Faridabad, will start offering a vegetarian cooking option from academic year 2017 onwards.[1][2]

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