Ahmedabad: On Thursday afternoon, the ground floor of the Sopan block at BJ Medical College students’ hostel buzzed the way a college canteen should, trays clattering, students hunched over plates in the narrow window between a lecture and a hospital shift. Nothing aOn Thursday afternoon, the ground floor of the Sopan block at BJ Medical College students’ hostel buzzed the way a college canteen should: trays clattering and students hunched over plates in the narrow window between a lecture and a hospital shift. Nothing about the scene looked extraordinary, and that is what makes it an achievement.Come Friday, the college campus marks one year since the crash that killed 241 passengers and crew members and 19 people on the ground, four of whom were the students. Around 50 others were injured. Every one of them has since returned to their books and their wards.But the crash site still stares them in the face — the central mess was shut down. What rose in its place was a student-run network of canteens spread across the ground floors of eight hostel blocks, feeding 1,200 medicos three times a day. The students got alternative meal arrangements up and running just 10 days after the disaster.Kevin Kotadiya, a resident doctor and one of the coordinators for the initiative, said the committees decide the menus for the canteens, procure flour and vegetables, and coordinate the finances. “A meal costs Rs 65; it comes to Rs 3,500 a month.”Manju Pattani, one of the cooks at the canteen, was among those on ground who were injured. “It gives us immense satisfaction to feed the medicos who treat hundreds of patients at Civil Hospital.”Rudra Gamit, a student and a canteen coordinator, said, “The canteens are split into broad zones drawn along the lines of the state’s regions and beyond. It also gives us a chance to taste each other’s specialities.”