Members of ISKCON’s Food For Life program where recently invited to a “Sankalp Utsav” festival organized by the Government of Delhi, in Pragati Maidan in the city center.
Delhi Chief Minister Srimati Sheila Dikshit, who inaugurated the function, honored the ISKCON devotees with a request to light the event’s inauguration lamp in front of the assembled electronic and news media.
Dikshit also presented appreciation awards to Food For Life director Balabhadra Dasa and midday meal director Mr. Piyoosh Goyal for ISKCON’s “Aap ki Rasoi” program. Translated as “your kitchen,” the program feeds the poor daily in seven different areas of Delhi.