VISAKHAPATNAM: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Visakhapatnam, has provided a customised mobile van to Akshaya Patra Foundation for distribution of free mid-day meal to government school children at a cost of Rs. 11.20 lakhs as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.
Executive Director of GAIL P.K. Jain handed over the keys of the mobile van to the foundation representatives at a function held in the city recently. DGM (O&M), GAIL, U.P. Bhagat, and other executives were present. Head of the Visakhapatnam Division of Akshaya Patra Foundation Niskinchana Bhakta Dasa said that some 5,500 school children were being covered under the mid-day meal programme at present. The addition of the mobile van would help in taking the number to over 10,000 children.
The vehicle was designed in such a way that the food would remain hot for eight hours till distribution to the school children. He thanked GAIL for associating itself in the noble cause, which would go a long way in reducing the dropout rate in schools, besides preventing malnutrition among schoolchildren.
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