Considering the importance of Food Processing in ensuring food and nutritional security, the Centre for Food Engineering and Technology was incepted at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, in 2023 according to the recommendation by the 71st meeting of the Board of Governors, 2022 with a vision to foster and provide demand-driven, value-based and quality technical education, premier research, and outreach efforts in Food Engineering and Technology to make India a developed country through socio-economic transformation.