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- The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been awarded the BBC World Service’s Global Food Champion 2019.
- Global Food Champion is an annual award that honours people or projects that is changing the way the world produces, processes, consumes or thinks about food for the better.
- The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) is an NGO for children in India which implements the Mid-day meal scheme in number of states in India.
- Mid-Day Meal Scheme is a centrally-sponsored Scheme that provides children studying in Classes I-VIII of government and government aided schools with cooked mid-day meal.
- The key objectives of the MDMS is to a) improve the nutritional status of children and b) improve enrollment, attendance and retention rates in schools and EGS/AIE centres (Alternative and Innovative Education Centres)
- The Mid-day Meal scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Human resources and Development. Both the Centre and the state governments contribute funds for the scheme, with the menu differing in each state according to local factors.
- In some places, the supply of meals is outsourced to contractors appointed by the state governments; example: Akshaya Patra.



