Report on Mess.

PCE Mess

Photo: Dawa

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry says if we want to keep our vigor healthier we should get apposite nourishment but schmoozing about the mess in the college, the condition is poor. A student trainee pays Nu.850 from their stipend per month as a mess charge. According to some students who are availing hostel says their grievances are never considered instead they have to eat the nourishment under compulsion.

Talking to some ladies, they say the food they get is neither virtuous nor deprave because the amount paid to the mess proprietor is very less and it rarely costs Nu.10 per plate which is adequate.

There are more than 300 students who are consuming the mess food. Out of that some of them are vegetarian and some non-veg. The curry served to vegetarian are not comparable to that of non-veg. Talking to the head cooks, they say they are trying and depositing their hard work to make best out of it and to make two items for more than 300 students is thought-provoking. One of the students told “as far as I know they try not to vex us by giving crude curry”.

Beholding at the place the sanitation is poor. We can see lots of leftover food on the table, and the eater simply goes without thinking to clean his own table. Whose responsibility is it? The mess in charge Councilor Tshewang Gyeltshen was the right person to ask. He said that it is his/her responsibility to clean the tables after the consumption. In other colleges the cooks have their dress code and it looks clean with their dress worn, talking about the college mess they don’t have dress code as well and it looks imperfect without the dress.

In previous semester there used to be schedule attached on the wall and according to the menu they used to feed the students, now there isn’t any menu and whatever is available the store they give to us. Beholding on another site, it is not fair for the student to eat whatever cook cooks for them. “These food issues have been like the culture preserved in the hostel for long time and no one is looking after the welfare of poor trainees” said by one of the aged trainee. We think someone should tackle these issues but whom do we blame, whose responsibility is it? For how much these culture will exist? We wonder and everybody looks to find ponder who can help the poor trainees.