CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Industrial Visit Report At “Akshaya Patra Foundation”
Date: 18/02/2021
Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering organised an Industrial Visit to AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION @ Rajajinagar, Bangalore dated on 18th February 2021. It is one of the World’s Largest NGO which Run Mid-Day Meal Program Serving Wholesome School Lunch to Over 1.76 Million Children in 15,024 Schools Across 12 States in India.
The students of 3rd Semester “A, B and C ” Section around 75 students were taken for the visit. The kitchen is almost atomized having less human intervention in the centralized cooking process. Each school has a representative who provides information about the number of students attending the next day school and that information will be fed to the software. Accordingly the mid-day meals will be prepared and distributed in their custom made thermal insulated vans.
Tonnes of vegetables are used in everyday meals to prepare nutritious food for children. Refrigeration unit is used to store vegetables till the next day.
