What's behind Akshay Patra's push for veg meals?

No Images? Click here     At Nutrition Institute Okaying Akshaya Patra's Veg Meals, Connections And Casteism When the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) endorsed the Akshaya Patra Foundation’s refusal to serve onions and garlic in the mid-day meals it provides to schoolchildren, it didn’t include an important caveat: Dr Subba Rao M. Gavaravarapu, a deputy director at the institute, was a member of Akshaya Patra’s consultative council.  When HuffPost India asked Dr. Gavaravarapu about this connection, he said he had attended only one meeting, and “gave a bit of advice”. A day after the conversation, Akshaya Patra quietly removed Dr. Gavaravarapu’s name from the online version of the report. “Dr. Subba Rao advised us to remove his name from the report because of the recent controversy around ‘onion and garlic’,” an Akshaya Patra spokesperson said in a statement. “He, however, continues to be on our consultative council.” The controversy around the NIN report, and Dr. Gavaravarapu’s connection to Akshaya Patra, a closely-held privately-run religious outfit, reveals the outsized influence that a little-known state-funded institute has over the lives and diets of millions of Indians.  READ HERE In case you missed it… Aziz Ansari Is Returning To Netflix After Me Too Scandal Pa Ranjith Is The Conscience The Indian Film Industry Desperately Needed Advantage, Wimbledon! Six Free Apps For Tennis Lovers     New to this email? You can sign up here. You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard. ©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost India. Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe   - - Unsubscribe