NEW DELHI (India CSR®): Delta Exchange, India’s leading crypto exchange, has partnered with the Hare Krishna Movement Charitable Foundation (HKMCF) to support the Telangana Government’s School Breakfast Programme, with a Rs 4 crore contribution towards setting up a centralised kitchen in Vikarabad. The facility is expected to provide breakfast to approximately 27,000 government school students every day, strengthening access to regular, quality meals for children across the region.
The partnership was formalised through an MoU exchange between Chain Labs Pvt. Ltd. (Delta Exchange India) and HKMCF in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana, Shri Revanth Reddy. The initiative forms part of the state-wide expansion of HKMCF’s centralised kitchen model, which aims to reach approximately 18 lakh students across 23,106 government schools through 31 centralised mega kitchens.
The Vikarabad kitchen will follow HKMCF’s centralised kitchen model established in Kodangal in 2024. The model is designed to enable the preparation and distribution of nutritious meals at scale while maintaining consistency in nutrition, hygiene and quality, and allows for a wider variety of breakfast options, including dosa, millet idli and puri.
The initiative is expected to create 10,000 to 15,000 direct and indirect employment opportunities as the programme expands across the state.
Commenting on the partnership, Pankaj Balani, Co-founder and CEO of Delta Exchange, said: “Access to nutritious food is an important foundation for a child’s wellbeing and development. Through our partnership with HKMCF, we are proud to support the infrastructure needed to extend a scalable breakfast programme to thousands of government school students in Telangana. We see this as an opportunity to contribute not only to immediate nutritional needs, but also to an initiative that can create sustained impact for children and communities over the long term.”
With over 13 years of experience in providing meals to underserved communities, HKMCF, part of the ISKCON Bangalore group, operates more than 20 centralised community kitchens across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and has served over 25 crore meals to date.
The partnership is part of Delta Exchange India’s broader CSR efforts to contribute to communities beyond its core business and support initiatives with measurable social impact.
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