AAI Grant Rs 20 Crore for Setting up Central Kitchen

AAI Grant Rs 20 Crore for Setting up Central Kitchen

RANCHI: Airports Authority of India under the ambit of CSR, in collaboration with Govt. Of Jharkhand & Akshya Patra Foundation (NGO) has taken initiative for setting up Central Kitchen at Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand. The central kitchen will have a capacity of 1 Lac Mid-day meal every day & related infrastructure for its distribution. AAI is providing a grant of Rs.20 Crore as CAPEX under its CSR Scheme. 
 
For setting up of the central kitchen, AAI signed MoU with Govt. Of Jharkhand and M/s Akshya Patra Foundation on 13th Dec 2017 in presence of Union Minister Of State for Civil Aviation Shri Jayant Sinha, Regional Executive Director(ER), AAI, Shri K L Sharma, Shri R S Shukla, IAS  DC Hazaribagh, Sh. Anil Vikram, Airport Director(Ranchi ), AAI and Shri Vyom Pada Das, President, Akshya Patra Foundation.  
 
As per the MoU, AAI  shall provide the funds for setting up the project that includes the Construction of kitchen, procurement of kitchen equipment, electrical systems, distribution vessels, Vehicles, computer systems and a mini-laboratory for food testing.

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