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Focus

Housekeeping at a

housekeepers’ institute

Meet Bashir Vandana Rawat, Head of
Department – Rooms Division, Institute of

Hotel Management, Catering Technology &
Applied Nutrition, Jaipur. She serves a dual
role – training the housekeepers and facility

managers of tomorrow, as well as overseeing
the facility management of the institute’s

campus. She spoke with Mrigank Warrier,
Associate Editor, Clean India Journal about
the ins and outs of maintaining a residential

college campus.

What are the are the food preparation area, pot The housekeeping agency has
difficult-to-clean wash area, drainage and exhaust its own supervisor; from the
institute, we have housekeeping
areas of the vents. We make sure that daily attendants. Some students are
cleaning is thorough to avoid
campus? buildup of dirt and grime. selected as housekeeping proctors;
their job is to monitor cleaning as
Washrooms and well as cleanliness. Whenever an
kitchens are the most difficult to How are the issue arises, they coordinate with
clean. The men’s washroom is hostels cleaned the agency or the maintenance
more of a problem, partly because and maintained? department to get it resolved.
there are more male students. In
the kitchen, oil and grease are an There is one hostel each At present,
issue. Students do not come with for boys and girls. As a students are
knowledge of how and how much way of imbibing dignity of labour,
oil to use, or how to dispose of it responsible for
correctly. This is where they learn. basic cleaning of their rooms is getting their own
done by students themselves.
clothes laundered.
Is kitchen cleaning Sweeping and mopping, of course, How will this change in
mechanised or is done by the housekeeping the future?
vendor. We also make sure that
manual? one janitor is deputed to each
In the second year, as part
It is a combination of hostel every morning for dealing of the curriculum, students are
both. Day-to-day cleaning with eventualities. taught how to remove stains from
is more of a manual aprons, which are a part of the
process. For deep cleaning, we How are the uniform. For stubborn stains, we
make sure that the vendor uses housekeeping ask them to bring the garment to
specialised machines. the housekeeping lab for special
Within the kitchen, the four operations treatment, followed by the regular
main areas that need to be cleaned supervised? process.

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