RESOURCE PLANNING

The Akshaya Patra

Foundation
AKASHYA PATRA
Looking out of a window, one day in Mayapur, a village near Calcutta, His
Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada saw a group of
children fighting with stray dogs over scraps of food. From this simple, yet
heart-breaking incident was born a determination that no child within a
radius of ten miles from our centre should go hungry. Akshaya Patra started
the Mid-Day Meal Programme in June 2000 by serving mid-day meals to
1,500 children across five government schools in Bengaluru, Karnataka. A
humble beginning, yet, the initial days of implementing the programme was
not a smooth sail.
“NO CHILD IN INDIA SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF
EDUCATION BECAUSE OF HUNGER.”

“TO FEED 5 MILLION CHILDREN BY 2020.”

 Action Dashboard
A Non-Profit Organisation headquatered in Bangalore
Once the Mid-Day Meal was mandated centerally by the
Government of India in 2003
Akshaya Parta partnered with the government to serve cooked meal
at the Government schools.
Implements the Mid-Day Meal programme in 33 locations of 12
states of India.
It has 31 centeralised kitchen and 2 de-centeralized kitchen at
Nayagarh and Baran.
The Public Private Partnership works towards meeting the
following objectives;
Elemenating classroom hunger
Increasing school enrolment
Increasing school attendance
Improving socialisation among castes
Addressing malnutrition
Women empowerment
Value Chain & Production Model
Centralized Decentralized
The Akshaya Patra centralised kitchens are equipped with cauldrons,
trolleys, rice , dal/sambar tanks, cutting boards, knives and other similar
equipment that are sanitised before usage. The semi-automated kitchens
have the capacity to undertake large scale feeding, typically up to 100,000
mid-day meals a day and they also adhere to Food Safety Management
Systems (FSMS) to ensure safe handling, preparation and delivery of the
food.

Using these highly mechanised units, Akshaya Patra is able to achieve the
highest levels of hygiene by reducing human contact with the food. After
cooking, the food is packed into stainless steel containers and transported
via conveyor belts to be loaded into custom made food distribution vehicles,
to be taken to the beneficiary schools.
Decentralised kitchens are set up in locations where geographical
terrain and bad road connectivity make it difficult to set up a large
infrastructure. These kitchens are run by women Self-Help Groups
(SHGs) who undertake the cooking process under the guidance of
Akshaya Patra. The members of these groups are trained in Akshaya
Patra’s kitchen processes and operations module and are monitored
by Akshaya Patra representatives to ensure that safe, nutritious food
is being provided to children in their mid-day meal
 Pre-Processing
Vegetables
Pre-processing

Rice

Potatoes Tomatoes
 FOOD SAFTEY AND HYGIENE;
Hygiene is the primary concern
Measures taken to decontaminate every item and ensure
healthy food
Followed the 5’s – Sort; Simplify; Scrub; Standardize; Sustain
Cooking equipment were sanitized with steam before every
use
Packaging container was also sanitized with steam
Specially designed food trucks and containers to maintain
temperature and ensure hygiene
 Conclusion
Being a major non-profit organisation, their perspective on the future of the overall emerging
social data ecosystem is that “There has to be a sustained demand for data from the
regulators – in this case, the government – for organisations to systematise their processes
and supply data”. In connection with the food safety standards law, they think the law should
implemented strictly and, moving forward, it will be tough for organisations to operate in
unsystematic ways.
Akshaya Patra’s data system gives us a promising perspective on how the data analytics
movement in the Indian social sector can be perceived beyond the fundamental aspect of
‘transparency’ to streamline organisational processes and services. The whole can be greater
than the sum of its parts only through interactivity of components at different levels. While
organic or ecological interactivities may be distant dreams, the story does suggest the
emergence of a certain dialogue between data collection and potential knowledge
production.
GROUP 6

• Sujata Sharma 18028

• Priyanka Shaw 18016
• Anshu Kumar 18003
• Sumit Saurav 18031
• Md. Fahad Khan 18036