bengaluru a day after the department of youth empowerment sports dyes hostel athletes protested against lack of quality food and drinking water the authorities swung into action to resolve the crisis on wednesday top dyes officials visited the hostel and promised the trainees that the kitchen would be reopened in a weeks time an athlete told toiwith the hostel kitchen shut since june 1 after the cooks contract ended athletes have been forced to eat at a nearby restaurant also the athletes have been forced to buy drinking water for the past few weeks as the water purifier has stopped functioningthe officials assured us that the water purifier would be serviced soon they said the toilets which are in a poor state would be renovated and that repair works would be carried out on the walls and ceiling at the hostel the athlete added meanwhile dyes sources confirmed to toi that the department is in the process of setting up its own kitchen the boys themselves complained to us about the poor quality of food served in the mess so the dyes took a decision a few months ago to set up its own mess to provide them quality food