Akshaya Patra is a non-profit organization that provides mid-day meals to school children across India. It is headquartered in Bengaluru and is the world's largest mid-day meal program. Akshaya Patra partners with public and private organizations to feed over 1.8 million children daily. The organization uses a dual distribution strategy with centralized kitchens in urban areas for scale and decentralized kitchens in rural areas to target more remote communities. Akshaya Patra measures its success by the number of children fed and improvements to their health and school performance. The organization aims to focus more on food quality while continuing its growth across India.

1. CASE STUDY ON
AKSHAYA PATRA
GROUP-1
Ishita Bhayani: 20185019
Manan Joshi: 20185022
Tushar Kakadiya: 20185023
Niraj Kapadia: 20185028
Museb Memon: 20185037
Nidhi Lakhani: 20185040

2. INTRODUCTION
● Idea generation
● Non-profit org. headquartered in bengaluru
● Provides fresh & nutritious meal to children on every
single school day
● World’s largest mid-day meal programme
● Public-private partnership
● Ranked 23 on top 100 NGOs of the world by global
journal

3. Akshaya Patra Foundation
● Expansion of Operations
● Management and Funding
● Maintaining Cost Efficiencies
● Site Selection
● Constant Learning and Improvement

4. Dual-Pronged Distribution Strategy
● Centralized Model :Operations in Bangalore
Supply Chain and its challenges
Around-the-clock operations
Preparation and cooking
Delivery
Replicating the model to all over India
● Incorporation of Automation
● Decentralized Operations
Human resource issues
Overcoming Challenges

5. Extension of services
● Distribution of medical services
● Inclusion of infants and expectant or nursing mother
● Feeding adult laborers
● Leveraging corporations and other NGOs

6. Measuring success
● Number of children fed
● Health and school
performance
State No. of Children No. of Schools
Andhra Pradesh 1,16,383 1,340
Assam 32,292 585
Chhattisgarh 13,139 175
Gujarat 3,86,119 1,666
Karnataka 4,49,079 2,887
Odisha 1,50,375 1,980
Rajasthan 2,50,504 2,721
Maharashtra 22,203 207
Tamil Nadu 731 1
Telangana 1,24,128 875
Tripura 910 2
Uttar Pradesh 2,19,734 3,294

7. Operational Growth Model
● Centralized Distribution Model -The centralized kitchen model had the benefits of scale and the best
promise for being able to feed the largest number of children for the lower cost.
● Decentralized Distribution Model-The rural areas were best targeted through the decentralized model,
but akshaya patra questioned whether they could achevie necessary scale to make a difference in these
area.

8. School
Inspection
Report

9. Conclusion
● Focus on quality and not quantity - Mission & Vision focus on number of students feed and
not on the quality of food serve.
● Positive work environment - Increment in wages - Provident fund - Family health insurance
● Growth