Cooking with a Mother’s Love

Akshaya Patra provides the mid-day meal to children all over India, who have no proper access to adequate nutrition and education any other way. By providing the tasty, healthy food, children are given an incentive to attend classes and concentrate on their education, and hopefully leave the cycle of poverty behind.

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It takes very little to give a lot!

By teaming up with The Akshaya Patra Foundation you can feed a child for an entire year with just Rs 750 and ensure that the child stays in school entire year. Though this seems impossible, the Foundation, with the help of the Government of India, has devised a means to make this a sustainable operation. Using this model, The Akshaya Patra Foundation has reached out to over 1.39 million children across 10 states in India on every school day, providing them with the tasty, nutritious mid-day meal.

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Another step in the right direction

Following the trajectory of The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s movement across the country, it pleased me greatly to see that the Foundation has opened yet another kitchen at Rourkela, in Odisha. The Akshaya Patra Foundation already has two kitchens in Odisha, one at Puri and the other at Nayagarh, but this third kitchen is expected to help fill in a much needed gap in the state.

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Technology and The Akshaya Patra Foundation

A combination of mechanization and technological innovation is a core feature that allows Akshaya Patra to carry out large-scale cooking operations on a daily basis. To prepare over 1.3 million meals every day, Akshaya Patra’s centralized kitchens are efficiently managed and engineered to provide quality and quantity. These industrial-sized kitchens have the capacity to cook between 50,000 to 150,000 healthy and hygienic meals.

To reduce the risk of contamination, the three-tier kitchens are equipped with a gravity-flow mechanism to prepare meals. Chopping and cleaning is done on the second floor, cooking on the first and packaging on the ground floor. The food passes from each floor through steel ducts. It is cooked at a temperature of up to 93°C to keep it free from micro-organisms.

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Value Add to the Mid Day Meal - Biscuit Micronutrients Bakery Unit at Akshaya Patra Jaipur Kitchen

 

September 25, 2012 was a big day for the Akshaya Patra's Jaipur Kitchen. The day saw the launch of the country's first ever bakery machine for mid day meal programme. 

Addressing the gathering at the launch , chief guest Mr. Pratap Singh Khachriyavas, MLA, announced a donation of Rs. 10 lakhs for Akshaya Patra. He said that the money was donated from his MLA fund which can be utilised for any of the kitchen's activities. 

He also congratulated Akshaya Patra for launching ‘Akshaya Thali’ schemefor the benefit of the school children. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Ratnangadha Govind Dasa, Unit President – Jaipur, said that local students can now savour nutritious biscuits as part of their mid day meal. 

 The machine is capable of producing 30,000 biscuits a day.The machine has been launched to add taste and variety in the mid day meal menu.

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Source: Akshaya Patra Blog

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