The capital city of Delhi is all set to witness the first of its kind grand “Tribal Food Festival-2015” being organized by Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) on behalf of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of India, at Rajiv Gandhi Handicrafts Bhawan, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi from 16th to 19th January 2015 (11.00 am- 8.00 pm). Shri Jual Oram, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs will inaugurate the festival in the gracious presence of Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava, Minister of State for Tribal Affairs and Shri Karan Bir Singh Sidhu, Managing Director, TRIFED. Both the Ministers shall also interact with the tribal master cooks who are participating in the food festival with their ethnic traditional delectable cuisines from all over the country.

Tribal master cooks from States of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand and the North - Eastern States will offer mouth watering and finger licking dishes.

The main objective of this unique event is to introduce and create awareness on the varieties of ethnic Tribal Foods to the food lovers of Delhi with a view to providing additional source of income to the tribals.