Akshaya Patra Operations  
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Please click on the respective location below to know more about The Akshaya Patra Foundation's operations there.

State of Karnataka
 
Location
No. of children
No. of schools
1 Bangalore
2,01,000
533
2 Mysore
7,200
16
3 Mangalore
14,260
50
4 Hubli-Dharwad and Haveri districts 1,80,861 644
5 Bellary-Ananthpur
62,230
87
State of Rajasthan
 
Location
No. of children
No. of schools
1 Jaipur, Rajasthan *
1,50,000
705
* This includes the provision of mid-day meals to children in Anganwadi centres
2 Nathdwara 12,415 125
3 Saharia tribe in Baran district *
18,480
102 Villages
* This includes the provision of mid-day meals to Nursing Mothers & Pregnant women in Baran district
       
State of Uttar Pradesh
 
Location
No. of children
No. of schools
1 Vrindavan & Mathura* 86,255 410
* This includes the provision of mid-day meals to children in Anganwadi centres
State of Orissa
 
Location
No. of children
No. of schools
1 Puri 27,500 203
2 Bahpur, Nayagarh Dist.

2,500

  
           
State of Gujarat
1 Ahmedabad / Gandhinagar 65,000  
 
     
  Operations, Logistics & Safety Measures  
 
The food is cooked in centralized kitchen facilities that have been designed and engineered from scratch by the Akshaya Patra management to optimize quality and minimize cost. The facility consists of a series of mechanized steam-heated cauldrons, custom-built to cook nutrient, staple and native food most appreciated by children on a long-term basis. Mechanization has minimized human handling of food to ensure high standards of hygiene and cleanliness. Steam heating has accelerated the cooking process, enabling the Foundation to prepare meals in large scale in less than five hours.

The food is packed into stainless steel containers and loaded into custom-built vehicles. Using a fleet of vehicles, food is transported to the schools within a 50km radius.  Security personnel escort each vehicle to ensure safe delivery of meals to the schools. The vehicles drop off the meals in the schools (about 20 to 25 schools per vehicle) and on their return trip pick up empty containers. The mapping of the schools to the vehicles has also been done efficiently.
  
 
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