Akshaya Patra (Free Food) does in Bengaluru

Akshaya Patra (Free Food) does in Bengaluru

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 benifited from akshayapatra!!

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