DRDO tests quality of BSF rations

The Border Security Force (BSF) has commissioned an assessment by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratory of the quality of meals served to its jawans and officers.

The decision comes a year after a jawan posted a video on a social media site, alleging that watery dal and burnt chappatis were being served to the personnel.

Director-General, BSF, K.K. Sharma said the study was commissioned on the recommendation of a parliamentary committee that considered the issue recently.

“We are getting a study done by a DRDO laboratory into the quality of the food being served in the BSF messes. While the final report is awaited, what we have been made to understand is that the quality and quantity of food ... have been found to be more than satisfactory...,” he said.