{"id":134739,"date":"2023-05-31T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134739"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:39:58","slug":"high-commissioner-moragoda-undertakes-a-visit-to-akshaya-patra-foundation-in-bengaluru-to-study-their-renowned-mid-day-meal-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/31\/high-commissioner-moragoda-undertakes-a-visit-to-akshaya-patra-foundation-in-bengaluru-to-study-their-renowned-mid-day-meal-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"High Commissioner Moragoda undertakes a visit to Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bengaluru to study their renowned mid-day meal programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in India<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda recently undertook a visit to the Headquarters of the Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bengaluru, Karnataka to study their renowned mid-day meal programme for school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in 2000 as a non-profit trust of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Akshaya Patra is one of the world\u2019s largest not-for-profit run school feeding programmes, serving wholesome food every school day to over 2.3 million children from 22,367 schools across 15 states and 2 union territories of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, the Foundation operates 67 large-scale kitchens in these states and union territories, which has been made possible by successful Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with the Government of India, various state governments and generous supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation is the largest implementing partner of the Indian Government\u2019s Mid-Day Meal Scheme or the <em>Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman<\/em> (PM-POSHAN) designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation is continuously leveraging technology to multiply its reach and their state-of-the-art kitchens have become a subject of study and attracted visitors from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit to the Akshaya Patra Foundation\u2019s Headquarters in Bengaluru, High Commissioner Moragoda met with the President of ISKCON Bengaluru &amp; Foundation\u2019s Chairman Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa and Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa, Vice Chairman of the Foundation. Their discussions centred around the possibilities of replicating a similar mid-day meal programme in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation is continuously leveraging technology to multiply its reach and their state-of-the-art kitchens have become a subject of study and attracted visitors from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his visit to the Akshaya Patra Foundation\u2019s Headquarters in Bengaluru, High Commissioner Moragoda met with the President of ISKCON Bengaluru &amp; Foundation\u2019s Chairman Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa and Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa, Vice Chairman of the Foundation. Their discussions centred around the possibilities of replicating a similar mid-day meal programme in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in India Sri Lanka\u2019s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda recently undertook a visit to the Headquarters of the Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bengaluru, Karnataka to study their renowned mid-day meal programme for school children. Established in 2000 as a non-profit trust of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}