In Conversation with Shridhar Venkat, CEO, The Akshaya Patra Foundation

from marginalised communities, such as daily wage earners, labourers at construction sites among others across India. The Akshaya Patra Foundation has now served over 76 million meals in the form of freshly cooked food and food relief kits with essential groceries over the last six months across 52 locations in 17 states and two union territories to address food insecurity that has compounded as a result of the pandemic. Sridhar Venkat, chief executive officer of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, shares some of the initiatives he took to fight the pandemic and how the food supply chain has kept going, despite all odds.