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OTHER STATES SHOULD LEARN FROM KARNATAKA
Share it on FacebookAkshaya Patra is the free midday meal scheme in Karnataka.
Where is this plant? Who owns and operates it?
This is the daily midday meal scheme for underprivileged kids.
fantastic .. ..a must see & read.
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.
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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
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History
One of the pioneers of the scheme is the Madras that started providing cooked meals to children in corporation schools in the Madras city in 1923. The programme was introduced in a large scale, in 1960s under the Chief Ministership of K. Kamaraj after visiting Sourashtra Higher Secondary School – Madurai, were this program implemented by liguistic minority people since 1922. The first major thrust came in 1982 when Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr. M. G. Ramachandran, decided to universalise the scheme for all children up to class 10. Tamil Nadu’s midday meal programme is among the best known in the country. Less known, but equally interesting is the history of Pondicherry, which started universal school feeding as early as 1930.
There is an interesting story about how K. Kamaraj got the idea of a noon meal scheme. He saw a few boys busy with their cows and goats. He asked one small boy, "What are you doing with these cows? Why didn't you go to school?" The boy immediately answered, "If I go to school, will you give me food to eat? I can learn only if I eat." The boy's retort sparked the entire process into establishing the midday meal programme.
Several other states of India also have programmes. The most notable among them is Gujarat that has had it since the late 1980s. Kerala started providing cooked meals in schools since 1995 and so did Madhya Pradesh and Orissa in small pockets. On November 28, 2001 the Supreme Court of India gave a landmark direction to government to provide cooked meals to all children in all government and government assisted primary schools. The direction was resisted vigorously by State governments initially, but the programme has become almost universal by 2005. Recently Govt. of India has launch new Mid day Meal Scheme Website i.e. http://mdm.nic.in
National Programme for Nutrition Support to Primary Education
Although the programme in Tamil Nadu was initially termed as an act of "Populism", the success of the scheme made the project hugely popular. The success was so spectacular that in 1995, the then Indian prime minister P.V.Narsimha Rao hailed the success of the project and suggested that the scheme be implemented all over the country, and thus began the "National Programme for Nutrition Support to Primary Education".
According to the programme the Government of India will provide grains free of cost and the States will provide the costs of other ingredients, salaries and infrastructure. Since most State governments were unwilling to commit budgetary resources they just passed on the grains from Government of India to the parents. This system was called provision of ‘dry rations’. On November 28, 2001 the Supreme Court of India gave a famous direction that made it mandatory for the state governments to provide cooked meals instead of ‘dry rations’. The direction was to be implemented from June 2002, but was violated by most States. But with sustained pressure from the court, media and in particular from the Right to Food Campaign more and more states started providing cooked meals.
In May 2004 a new coalition government was formed in the centre, which promised universal provision of cooked meals fully funded by the centre. This promise in its Common Minimum Programme was followed by enhanced financial support to the states for cooking and building sufficient infrastructure. Given this additional support the scheme has expanded its reach to cover most children in primary schools in India. In 2005 it is expected to cover 130 million children.
Midday Noon meal scheme is running in Tamilnadu for the last 30 years with 2 eggs in a week in all shools and in all anganwadis to all childrens those whos names are in the attendence register , 3 staffs appointed in each and every school. 2 ladies staffs preparing the meals like home made.Govt spending several thuosand Crs every year.Govt supplying Rise,dall,oil etc through tamil nadu civil supplies corporation,vegtables and fire wood they purchased from local mkt it is called MGR NUTRION FOOD SCHEME.
ISKCON is doing a good job. They also have started in other places of karnataka also.
Some people may indulge in leg pulling but ISKCON is not disheartened. Let good work continue.
Srinivasan
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