Bengaluru Vasanthapura

V.K.Hill /Vasanthapura Kitchen

In the Garden City of India, Bengaluru’s Vasanthapura locale, is situated the massive 5-storeyed ISO certified 5S and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practise) standardised centralised kitchen of The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The kitchen is also referred to as the V.K. Hill kitchen since it is located atop the Vaikuntha Hill. The kitchen stands in a radius of 1,10,686.42 square feet and was inaugurated in 2007.

607

Schools
65,372

Students
20650Kgs

Rice per Day
18000Ltrs

Sambar per day

Details of the Kitchen

Centralised / De-centralised Model Centralised
Own / Rented Premises Rented ( constructed by TAPF)
Month & year of initiation June 2007
Size of the kitchen in acres 1,10,686.42 sq. ft.
Is the kitchen ISO Certified? Yes
Is the kitchen sponsored / funded? Funded

Kitchen Menu and More

Day	Menu
Monday	Rice, Sambar
Tuesday	Rice, Sambar, Pickle
Wednesday	Pulav, Sweet, Curd
Thursday	Rice, Sambar
Friday	Rice, Sambar, Curd
Saturday	Bissi Bhel bhat & Sweet
Sunday	Holiday

Cooking Timings of the Kitchen:	Regularly days at 03:00 AM – 12.00 AM Shift 1 Saturdays : 01:00 AM –10:00 AM
Any special dish (frequency – once/ twice a week):	Pulav, Rice Kesaribath Bissi bhel bhat & Sweet pongal
Number of Kitchen equipment	8 Rice Cauldrons, 8 Sambar Cauldrons, Steam Generating boilers, Rice and Sambar Cookers, Vegetable cutting machines, Coconut Scrapers, Wet Grinders, Trolleys for transporting cooked rice, Rice Chutes, Sambar Tank, Rice cleaning machine, Hydraulic Trolley, Master and Day silo, Biogas, Conveyor belts, Solar unit, Rice washing machine, Vegetables washing machine, and Roaster Machine
Capacity of each cauldrons	Rice 600 ltr, Sambar 1200 ltr, 3000ltr

There are 54 custom-made meal distribution vehicles that deliver the cooked mid-day meals to the beneficiary schools. There are opportunities to donate vans on particular occasion in honour or in memory of a loved person. The names of donors are displayed on the delivery vans. Here are the names of some of them; AKP, Rotary Bangalore, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, Srimaan Harnamdas Kapur Trust, Philips, Micro Labs Ltd etc

Eco- friendly measures adopted in the kitchen

The eco-friendly measures adopted are:

A solar plant that generates 70 units of power a day;
Biogas plant;
Recycled water from Sewage Treatment Plant is reused for gardening;
Gravitation flow of raw materials and cooked food; and
Use of eco-friendly items.

CII National Award for food safety 2014

Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India

Group of IAS Officers on All India Tour

Delegation of Singapore Government Officials

Serving meals to BBMP colleges, Corporation Nursery Schools, and Private-aided schools;
Distribution of 7500 hygiene kits to Government school students;
Planting of saplings on World Environment Day; and
Conducting Donors Camp on Blood Donation Day.

Bengaluru Vasanthapura

The Akshaya Patra Foundation 52/2,8th mile, Maruthinagar, Doddakallasandra, Kanakapura road

080-22560107 Vinay Kumar – Director Operations Chetan. D – Unit Manager Vinay Kumar : 9886778417 Chetan. D : 8722803351 vinay.kumar@akshayapatra.org chetan.d@akshayapatra.org

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ABOUT AKSHAYA PATRA

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Bengaluru, India.The Foundation strives to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition in India, by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government schools and government-aided schools. Read more

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