Can a single meal brighten a child’s future? Can a school lunch bridge the gap in education? National Geographic Channel is now going back to school with the Akshaya Patra Foundation to showcase how the world’s largest school lunch program is cooking up millions of meals and offering India’s children a hopeful tomorrow, one plate at a time. The one hour special gives a unique look into what goes into the functioning of this mammoth kitchen– with a focus on scale, volume, technology and process. Committed to serving the cause providing nutrition to children, Akshayapatra Foundation serves wholesome food to over 1.4 million under privileged children from 10,661 schools across 10 states in India. NGC’s exclusive documentary on Akshaya Patra promotes the thought of food for education and gives interesting insights like how a whopping 175,000 meals are cooked in just about 5 hours with an ‘inexhaustible vessel’ and how gravity is used to do all the load-bearing work
Commenting on the show, Swati Mohan, Business Head, NGC Networks and FOX International Channels said, “Being the leader in the space of infotainment production in India, we at Nat Geo pride ourselves in creating content that exemplifies exclusive access, well researched facts, a local flavour and international quality. ‘Akshaya Patra’ is an example of our continued commitment to do just that and extend the much loved franchise of 'Megafactories’ in a very relevant and Indian way.”
Akshayapatra- Shiksha ka Mahabhog premieres on April 27, 2015 at 9pm on National Geographic Channel.