It’s 6 am and the only sign of activity is smoke from the chimney of the Akshaya Patra kitchen in Hubballi. Drive up the dusty path and it becomes evident it is called a mega kitchen.

Cauldrons of rice and sambar are on the boil in a well-oiled, mechanised, linear kitchen and the smell wafts across the floor.his kitchen is among the first in the country to use fortified rice after the Central government came out with standards for fortified food, in late October.The kitchen uses Ultra Rice or rice fortified with multiple micro-nutrients, including iron, folic acid and vitamins, and this is supplied to schools under the mid...Read More

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