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Akshaya Quality Management

Thermally insulated vehicles queued outside the kitchen waiting to load the utensils that contained
food to be supplied to schools.

Children in many government schools across Bangalore waited eagerly for this food as this was
the only wholesome meal of the day for most of them. At 7 am, Muralidhar, quality head at TAPF,
visited VK Hill kitchen 2 as part of his routine to interact with various people at the work place.

The number of schools served by VK Hill kitchen had increased steadily in the recent past resulting
in longer cooking times, leading to delays in carrying the food to some of the faraway schools.

In response to the United Nations Organization's calls to end poverty and hunger and provide
universal education,5 the Supreme Court of India passed an order on November 28, 20016 which
mandated that cooked midday meals were to be provided in all the government and government-
aided primary schools of all the states.5 Inconsistent food quality, occasional food poisoning, poor
hygiene, and operational concerns were some of the major challenges faced during the provision
of government- sponsored midday meals. In Karnataka, only dry ration (consisting of rice and
pulses) was distributed to the parents of the government school children in lieu of the midday meal

According to Venkatachallaiah, Assistant Headmaster of Government High School, Peenya,

located on the outskirts of Bangalore: There were incidents of children falling unconscious during
the assembly, as many of them would come without eating breakfast or even dinner the previous
night. Moved by the plight of the children in government schools, missionaries of the ISKCON
center in Bangalore, a few corporate professionals, and a few entrepreneurs came together to create
TAPF

TAPF carried out the government's Midday Meal Programme through the collaborative approach
of Public-Private Partnership (PPP), wherein around 51% of funding was provided by central and
state government grants and subsidies, allowing the organization to focus on raising the rest of the
funds required to operate the kitchens (Exhibit 1). In the beginning, the Foundation provided
midday meals to 1,500 children in five government schools in Bangalore

One of the schools to be initially selected by TAPF for distribution of midday meals was the
Government High School in Peenya, as the founders discovered that the schools on the city's
outskirts and rural areas were in maximum need of the Midday Meal Programme

TAPF operated two centralized kitchens in the city of Bangalore (one of them being the VK Hill
kitchen), to provide midday meals to 1,85,000 children in and around the Bangalore metropolitan
area.Decentralized KitchensTAPF expanded its Midday Meal Programme to rural areas of India
that suffered from the maximum levels of poverty and hence have the most malnourished children.