Appetising: A helper serving lunch organised by the non-profit Akshaya Patra Foundation to schoolgirls at Chaumuha Primary School on the outskirts of Vrindavan. - AFP
VRINDAVAN: Churning out 1.2 tonnes of curry in under an hour, staff running the spotlessly clean, high-tech kitchen are hoping to turn around the shocking reputation of India’s free school lunch scheme.
As a large machine rolls out thousands of fluffy, hot rotis (flat breads), aproned men add spices to vegetables and broths cooking in giant steel pots in the three-storey kitchen in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan.
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