November 10, 2019: The Akshaya Patra Foundation inaugurated a new kitchen in Mahadevapura village of Mandya district, Karnataka, to serve freshly cooked, nutritious Mid-Day meals to children. The state-of-the-art kitchen has the capacity to feed 20,000 children in Mandya and Mysuru districts.

Akshaya Patra has also taken the initiative of feeding 600 children from Anandalwar High School in Mahadevapura in its own capacity.

The chief guests at the inauguration ceremony were Smt Sumalatha Ambareesh, MP – Mandya constituency, and Shri Ravindra Srikantaiah, MLA – Srirangapatna constituency. Other dignitaries to grace the ceremony were Stoka Krishna Maharaja, Vice-President – ISKCON, Bengaluru and Jai Chaitanya Dasa, President – Iskcon Mysore. The event was presided by Shri. Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman – Akshaya Patra.