The ongoing side-effects of beef-ban in India

After PM Modi acknowledged the Dadri mishap today, reports of multi-national companies prohibiting beef in their cafeterias have started doing the rounds.

Expats, in such circumstances, are missing their key source of protein. Moreover, some feel that this certainly a harsh decision has come at a time when PM Modi is travelling abroad and is busy highlighting India’s virtues to the investors and inviting investments primarily from the Silicon Valley.

As published in an Economic Times report, a Japanese electronics company has stopped serving food items made of beef in its canteen. For those craving for their favourite food are however allowed to order only pork or fish from Japanese restaurants.

Chinese multi-national Huawei too has stopped serving beef in its India offices, informed an employee, requesting anonymity.

Not just this, but a South Korean company has halted the decision to move its employee’s families to India, who were scheduled to travel soon.

Such calls are being taken because companies believe that they can’t deprive South Koreans, Japanese, Europeans and Americans of something which is part of their daily meal.

A South Korean official, requesting anonymity said, "Beef is definitely the most popular food item among South Koreans. The recent controversy over beef eating in India has created some concern among our expats in various South Korean business firms in India."

The Indian national capital accommodates around 200 professionals and is the second largest home for them after Chennai with around 600 professionals based-out there. While for Japanese, the city has about 2,000 of them.

"There is increasing concern. Even in Gurgaon, having beef itself is technically a criminal offence. The recent incident in Dadri was carried in Japanese media," a Japanese government official said.