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.

HDFC Life

HDFC Life is one of the leading partners of The Akshaya Patra Foundation. The company is sponsoring mid-day meals for more than 2,000 children in Vadodara, Gujarat. They are supporting Akshaya Patra through cause marketing initiative. HDFC Life had done a campaign with BAncassurance channel last year called Pankh wherein for each policy sold, one child would be supported. Through this campaign, HDFC Life supported more than 900 children.

HDFC Securities Limited

HDFC Securities Limited is a financial services intermediary and a subsidiary of HDFC Bank, a private sector bank in India. HDFC securities was founded in the year 2000 and is headquartered in Mumbai with branches across major cities and towns in India. As a stock broking company, we have been serving a diverse customer base of retail and institutional investors, since 2000. HDFC Securities has partnered with Akshaya Patra to help it build the infrastructure that can help sustain the ever increasing demand for Mid-DAY Meals across India.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)

The Akshaya Patra Foundation’s 58th kitchen, sponsored by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), was inaugurated by Shri R. Madhavan, the Chairman and Managing Director of HAL, in Jalahalli on 18 August 2021, Bengaluru, Karnataka. This state-of-the-art infrastructure has the capacity to cook over 7,500 meals every day with due adherence to international standards of food safety and hygiene. HAL has sponsored the kitchen as part of its CSR project. Hot, nutritious meals reach the beneficiaries - the school children, who eagerly wait in anticipation for the blue bus, which ferries their meals to reach their campus. Shri R. Madhavan, the Chairman and Managing Director of HAL, said, “Corporate Social responsibility is an integral part of HAL. HAL has been taking CSR initiatives as a “call from within’ even before it was officially mandated. The CSR activities of HAL are tuned towards improving the quality of life of the socially & economically backwards groups and marginalized & weaker sections of the Society, in the vicinity of its operational areas. HAL has always been striving to meet the needs of the people through its various community development activities. Contributing towards establishment of the Guniagrahara Kitchen of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, is yet another step taken by HAL in giving back to the Society. The above Kitchen, designed to serve nutritious food to the School going children, will not only eradicate hunger but will also go a long way in ensuring students’ attendance. With this, I extend my heartiest compliments to the teams from the Akshaya Patra Foundation and HAL, instrumental in establishing the Kitchen and wish all the very best for its future operations.”

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited: (HPCL), a Navratna public sector oil and natural gas company, has been continuously working towards uplifting the vulnerable sections of society through its CSR interventions. HPCL focuses on identifying gaps in the existing system and bridging them, thereby creating long-term, sustainable impact rather than creating parallel systems. Towards this, HPCL has joined hands with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to provide hot and nutritious meals to over 20,000 students studying in Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. During September 2020, the families of HPCL employees helped Akshaya Patra in Covid 19 food relief by supporting over 2000 children with Dry Grocery Kits.

HSBC Bank

HSBC in India has been active in the development of the Indian banking industry - even giving India its first ATM in 1987. HSBC’s origins in India date back to 1853 when the Mercantile Bank of India was established in Mumbai. The bank has grown steadily and now offers products and services to corporate and commercial banking clients and retail customers. HSBC partnered with Akshaya Patra to bring relief for the marginalized section of the country affected by Corona. Thanks to Akshaya PATRA and HSBC association, thousands of people across India got their everyday meals when the whole country was battling with the second and third wave of the pandemic.

Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility has partnered with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to promote Education, Health and Community Development. Huawei is supporting the Mid-Day Meal Programme alongside extending CapEx support for kitchens in Kakinada, Vrindavan, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

IDBI Trusteeship Services Limited (ITSL)

IDBI Trusteeship Services Limited (ITSL) is India’s Leading Trusteeship Company which provides a wide spectrum of services.. It is jointly promoted by IDBI Bank Ltd., LIC of India, and GIC of India and completes two decades of professional service in 2021 providing ethical, neutral and dependable offerings in the trusteeship domain. Consistently ranked as NUMER 1 trusteeship company in India by Prime database . ITSL has been servicing numerous clients facilitating them to raise debt . Besides debenture trusteeship, security trusteeship and securitization trustee services ITSL provides services for regulated structures like P2P,AIFs,InvITs and REITS etc. As part of its CSR initiative, ITSL has supported Akshaya Patra since 2019 and have helped us to serve hot and nutritious Mid-Day Meals & Happiness kits(during Covid Pandemic) to children across cities in India.

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.

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