Let Nature have its day!

End of first week at work,
You have already lost track of the clock.
With berries in your pocket
Your mind is in a docket

To the daffodils of Wordsworth
And leisure of Davies
Humor from Scott
Wit from Buchwald


Throw open the rules
Throw away those tools
When at 9 you walk a mile
Tiredness gives away to a little smile

Sipping cup of coffee
Listening to the odyssey
Staring at the beauty
Munching some fruity


Ecstasy to attain
Outside the window pane
Dance in the rain
Away from the unnerving pain


The smell will be over
Before you even realize
For something gives hint
But the Nature just arrives.

Stuck on the first smell of rain this monsoon

A dream come true for underpriviledged students

Akshaya 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. 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 benefited from akshayapatra