Akshaya Patra kitchen as hygienic as hospital OTs

Dec. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- The standards of hygiene at Akshaya Patra kitchens are as high as a hospital's operation theater. It's mandatory for everyone to wear gloves, shoes and a cap. None of these are reused.
Lakhs of school children in the state eat meals cooked here in these mechanized  kitchens. These maintain the highest standards of hygiene by ensuring there is minimum human handling during cooking. There's no compromise on hygiene," said Madhupandit Dasa, Iskcon.
Akshaya Patra is ISO22000 certified for food safety. There are periodic inspections to ensure that standards are maintained. The organisation supplies fresh and hot cooked meals to 925 schools in Bangalore every day. Besides Bangalore, there are kitchens in Bellary, Hubli, Mangalore and Mysore which dish out midday meals. No wonder then there hasn't been a single instance of a child falling ill after  eating an Akshaya Patra meal.

About Akshaya Patra :

Birth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation
The history of the Foundation starts with a story of compassion.
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 street dogs over scraps of food. From this simple, yet heart breaking incident, came the determination that:  No one within a ten mile radius of our center should go hungry.
It is his inspiration which helped us to create The Akshaya Patra Foundation as it is today. Foundation  began this initiative with the vision that “No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger.”
In June 2000, it started it's mid-day meal program in Bangalore by feeding 1500 children in 5 schools. At that time there was no State run school meal program in Karnataka. Within a few short weeks the foundation  had received hundreds of requests from teachers who expressed the dire need of such a scheme.
This over whelming response was the impetus for the growth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation.

Growth of The Akshaya Patra Foundation
In November 28, 2001 the Supreme Court of India passed an order which mandated that: "Cooked mid-day meal is to be provided in all the government and government-aided primary schools in all the states." Akshaya Patra was called in to give testimonies to the Supreme Court in order to implement the mandate.
By the time the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of School Health and Education) extended its support to this noble cause in 2003, Akshaya Patra was already reaching out to 23,000 underprivileged children through the support of our donors.
With the partnership of the Government of India & various State governments, as well as the generosity of thousands of our supporters, the Foundation has grown from a small endeavor to a mammoth force that stretches across the country.
Now Akshaya Patra is reaching out to 1.3 million children everyday.
For 11 years, Akshaya Patra has been an international charity for children that has worked to transform a vision into a reality and will continue to do so…..

http://www.akshayapatra.org/