The Gujarat Animal Welfare Board and the Jain community approached Union Civil Aviation Minster Jyotiraditya Scindia to ban non-vegetarian food being serve to passengers on domestic flights.
It is claimed that the move would ensure that there’s no scope for “strict vegetarians” to be given non-vegetarian meals even by mistake.
The request comes after an alleged incident on a Tokyo-Delhi flight when a vegetarian passenger was served non-vegetarian food.
The traveller had reserved a Jain vegetarian meal for himself. However, the two crew members mistakenly served him a non-vegetarian meal, officials said. When the passenger realised that he had been served the wrong meal, he put in a complaint with the crew members, the officials said.
The airline has grounded the two crew members and initiated a probe into this incident.
According to reports, attendants on an Air India London-Ahmedabad flight found that the catering company had messed up the order and mostly uploaded non-vegetarian meals.
The London based catering company had uploaded 28-non-vegetarian and four vegetarian meals onto the aircraft while the correct order was just the opposite- 28 vegetarian and four non-vegetarian meals.
In February 2019, a cockroach was found in the food on the Bhopal-Mumbai flight.