Corporate Partners

The Akshaya Patra Foundation strongly believes in creating valuable relations and partnerships as they help in knowledge interaction, improving expertise, and increasing resources to reach a wider audience. We understand that the right business partnerships enhance the ethos of our organisation and our corporate partners are consistent with their contributions to the mid-day meal programme. We look forward to striking more partnerships and creating lasting relationships with several corporate partners to seamlessly achieve our goals while establishing trust and guardianships.

Idea

Idea Cellular part of Aditya Birla Group is a pan-India integrated wireless broadband operator offering 2G, 3G and 4G services. Idea Cellular CSR vision is to actively contribute to the social and economic development of the communities where it operates. In doing so, build a better, sustainable way of life for the weaker sections of society and raise the country's human development index. Idea Cellular in partnership with the Akshaya Patra Foundation addresses twin interlinked issues hunger and quality education for children by providing nutritious and hygienic meals to 40,000 students across nine locations in five States, Gujarat, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh from last three years.

Idemia

IDEMIA is the global leader in Augmented Identity for an increasingly digital world, with an ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment. IDEMIA ensures privacy and trust as well as guarantees secure, authentic and verifiable transactions in Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors. For the noble cause of eradication of hunger, poverty and malnutrition, IDEMIA (through its subsidiary L-1 Identity Solutions Operating Company Pvt. Ltd.) has partnered with Akshaya Patra for providing mid-day meals to 1150 students studying in Government and Government-aided schools in the city of Bellary, Karnataka.

IEX

IEX is the first and largest power exchange in India. Providing an automated trading platform for physical delivery of electricity, IEX enables efficient price discovery and offers participants the opportunity to trade in electricity contracts, Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and ESCerts (Energy Saving Certificates). IEX is approved and regulated by Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and has been operating since 27 June, 2008. The Exchange is now a publicly listed company on NSE and BSE. As part of its CSR initiatives of the Company, IEX has been providing support for ensuring nutrition and education of more than 10000 children enrolled in different government schools of Vrindavan & Nayagarh.

IFCI Social Foundation (ISF)

IFCI Social Foundation (ISF), a registered Trust, is the CSR arm of the IFCI Group. ISF makes effort to support long gestation, high impact projects. IFCI Ltd. (the erstwhile Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd.) is the first Development Finance Institution (DFI) set up in 1948 to develop the Industrial and Infrastructure needs of India and enable the growth of the economy. ISF has collaborated with Akshaya Patra since 2014 and has sponsored the mid-day meals of 11,000 children in the Government and Government aided schools in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru for a year. ISF has sponsored mid-day meal distribution vehicles for 4 locations – Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Vizag and Mangalgiri under their CSR initiative.

iMEDGlobal Solutions India Pvt Ltd

iMEDGlobal Solutions India Pvt Ltd, an FMD K&L company, is an innovation-driven company providing platforms, services, and solutions to global life sciences clients to address critical business and scientific needs. Their platforms, services, and solutions include Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory Affairs, and Clinical Research. Led by a strong management team with decades of experience and thought leadership with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices, cosmetic and technology enterprises, iMEDGlobal is designed to deliver high-quality cost-effective solutions and services for our clients in the Americas, Europe, and APAC. Their global delivery centres are in United States, United Kingdom, India, The Philippines, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Armenia.

Imperial Auto Industries Limited

Imperial Auto Industries Limited is India’s largest integrated manufacturer and assembler of Fluid Transmission Products covering the entire spectrum including flexible high-pressure assemblies, metal tubular assemblies, and low-pressure hose assemblies. The organization was established as a small-scale enterprise in 1969 in Faridabad, India. Today it has a global setup with over 20 facilities across India and another 3 outside India. The organization continues to grow and expand its operations continuously. Imbibed with social values, Imperial Auto has contributed 4,05,291 Mid-Day meals to 2,433 children's in Government and Government Aided Schools in Delhi. Additionally, Imperial Auto is committed to promoting education under its CSR throughout the fiscal year.

India Government Mint, Hyderabad

India Government Mint, Hyderabad, a unit of Security Printing And Minting Corporation of India Limited (‘SPMCIL’)) is one of the four Mints that is engaged in the manufacture and supply of coins to Reserve Bank of India for the purpose of circulation. It is an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2004 certified unit. IGM Hyderabad is engaged in end-to-end processes for coin production - melting, rolling, blanking, annealing, pickling & polishing and stamping. Aligned with its commitment of giving back to the society, the organization has been implementing a variety of projects across Education, Environment, Skill development, Water Conservation, Health and Family Welfare etc. India Government Mint supported Akshaya Patra Kitchen during 2019-20 helping us improve our operational capabilities and reach out to larger number of beneficiaries.

India TV

In 1997, Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan set up their own production house –Independent News Service (INS), the parent company which owns India TV. Amidst the clutter of news channels crowding the Indian television space, India TV stands tall on its brand promise “Shor Kam, Khabar Zyada”. With the eternal belief that news is public service, India Today delivers news that emboldens citizenry. So when news can be presented with élan, why should we sensationalise the same? India TV Mission provided financial support to The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The funds are utilized to organize food camps and grocery kits at various locations across India to benefit needy people on a daily basis, thereby increasing the spread of Akshaya Patra’s COVID Relief Programme

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IndianOil) , the Indian energy behemoth is a diversified, integrated energy major with presence in almost all the streams of oil, gas, petrochemicals and alternative energy sources and is India’s highest ranked Energy PSU in Fortune-500 list of 2023 (Rank 94). IndianOil’s theme of Pehle Indian Phir Oil is truly depicted through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) guided by its corporate vision of caring for the community and the environment. Under CSR, IndianOil is funding for seven nos. of Electric Vehicles and three kitchen equipment for Akshaya Patra.

INDO-MIM LIMITED

INDO-MIM LIMITED established in 1996, has grown to become a world leader in supply of complex shaped engineering products by using Metal Injection Moulding, Investment Casting and Precision Machining as its core technologies. INDO-MIM serves its customers in more than 45 countries including the America, Europe and Asia. INDO-MIM is a fully integrated engineering component producer with manufacturing facilities in India, USA and UK. INDO-MIM’s capabilities include proficiency in tool design, tool manufacturing, product engineering and manufacturing with a full range of finishing and assembly capabilities. INDO-MIM has partnered with Akshaya Patra in its endeavour to eliminate classroom hunger in government schoolchildren.

Indus Tower

Indus Towers is the largest telecom tower company that has brought forth a communication revolution in India. Indus touches 600 million people’s lives several times a day, every day. Every 3 out of 5 calls in India are made through an Indus site. The organisation has supported Akshaya Patra since many years and have helped serve hot and nutritious mid-day meals to 34200 children every day across 14 cities in India.

IndusInd Bank

The vision of IndusInd Bank is to be a relevant business and banking partner to the clients. Striving for customer responsiveness at all times, they provide solutions for the banking needs. They are the forerunners in the market place in terms of profitability, productivity and efficiency. They deliver sustainable and compliant returns to their stakeholders. IndusInd has sponsored the mid-day meals of 27,000 plus students studying in the Government and Government aided schools of Orissa

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