Nagpur: After serving hygienic and delicious midday meals (MDM) to 5,500 Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Zilla Parishad (ZP) students free of cost for last 11 months, Bengaluru-based NGO Akshaya Patra Foundation is now ready to cook and supply MDM to around 25,000 students in civic body’s schools.
Swami Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman of Akshaya Patra Foundation, has been instrumental in conceiving and implementing many social initiatives that impact millions people in India.
The story talks about the management skills of monks, who run this mammoth project of feeding over 1.6 million kids every day. The story explains how from fund raising to operations to distribution is managed efficiently and with zero error. Also, it talks about the past, present and future of Akshaya Patra.
Bolstered by a clutch of technology initiatives, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has established a successful template in serving mid-day meals to 1.6 million school children.
