How Wonderful It Would Have Been If

 The Akshaypatra provides the meals for mid-day meals in schools across various locations in India - you can also be a part of this noble cause by donating - you can donate at ISKON centers. Akshaypatra has been started by ISKON and is an integral part of ISKON

The kitchen from the outside - a three-storey building which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed in-house
by our team. Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50 000 to 100 000
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.

 The kitchen from the inside, consisting of rice cauldrons each of which
cooks up to 110kg of rice in 20 minutes. Sambar cauldrons cook up to 1200
litres of sambar in two hours.

 It is washed thoroughly on the 2nd floor

Washed rice is sent down the chute to the 1st floor

Rice pours down into steam heated cauldrons for cooking. The entire cooking process
takes place on the 1st floor

Super heated steam is used to cook food instead of flame.

When cooking is finished, it is loaded into trolleys

Cooked rice is sent down the chute to the ground floor

It flows down the pipe into containers

Piping hot rice on its way to being loaded into food vans. Around
6000 kilosof rice are cooked daily in each kitchen.

Food materials in Kitchen

Stock in the kitchen

Washed dal and vegetables flows down the chute into sambar cauldron on
the 1st floor.

Vegetables and dal ready to be cooked

Sambar being cooked on the first floor

Cooked sambar is packed and sent to the food vans to be loaded.

Chapati dough is mixed

Heavy rollers flatten the dough into thin sheets

Dough is cut into the classic round shape

Making chapatti

Collecting all the chapattis

Transporting akshayapatra food through bus

Happy Kids

Students benefitted from Akshayapatra!!

NOW SOMETHING TO REFLECT

How wonderful and thoughtful it would have been if lavish money thrown over IPL cricket matches was used for something like this by the sponsors

How wonderful it would have been if the Rs 96 Crore that was eaten up greedy individuals in the CWG scam was used to sponsor more free lunches for hungry children in the country. We could have fed hungry children in about 11 different cities.

How wonderful it would have been if the Rs 176,379 Crore that was eaten up by greedy individuals in the 2G scam was used to create more such Akshaypatras in the country. We could have built atleast 19600 such Akshaypatra Centers in our country!

How wonderful it would have been if our governments ensured that the poorest of the poor kids in the country had access to something like this. They would study. They would be educated. They will earn a livelihood for their families. And the number of people living below the poverty line in the country would decrease. We would be a happy nation. And thrive in prosperity.

 The Akshayapatra centers are not a government venture but built from public donations

How wonderful it would have been if you were reading this and felt like doing your bit for organizations like Akshayapatra

http://www.akshayapatra.org/

This is not a post written by me, but from an email forward