In 2016, three IHMCTANs - Ahmedabad, Bhopal and Jaipur - started giving a student the option to choose only vegetarian cooking. In 2018, the National Council for Hotel Management announced that all IHMs will provide a vegetarian option beginning academicyear 2018. This decision to offer a vegetarian option by IHMCTANs may be the first amongst any of the hospitality training institutes of the world. IHMCTAN at Pusa had already been practicing with vegan cooking through "vegan months" and sustainability practices such as rainwater harvesting.