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| Slum dwellers in Mumbai to get nutritious food at Rs 5 |
| Press Trust Of India / Mumbai Mar 06, 2009, 00:41 IST |
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Five students of city college have come up with a business plan that aims to distribute food packets among slum dwellers.
According to the plan, healthy food will be distributed to slum dwellers at a nominal cost of Rs 5.
The five management students of the NMIMS college in north west Mumbai recently won the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC), held at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, for their business plan ‘Ahaar’ to provide meals to slum dwellers.
As per the plan, nutritious meals would be provided in the form of aluminium foil food packets that contained rice, lentils, jaggery and vegetables at a cost of Rs 5.
“The idea for the business plan came about a year ago from a dream one of the team members, Ankit Jain, had in which he was distributing packets of food to children living in slums,” N G Sreejith, one of the team members, told PTI.
After discussing it with fellow team members, the five students decided to come up with a business plan to provide cheap nutritious meals to people living in slums, he said.
To understand the food habits of slum dwellers the students visited slums in Dharavi and Juhu to study how people lived there.
“From our study we found that an average slum resident spends about Rs 10 to cook a meal at home. By creating operational efficiencies at each stage, the price of the final food packet was reduced to Rs 5,” Sreejith said.
The students found that the savings made in food habits impacted all other aspects of slum dwellers lives since many of them were migrant labourers trying to send money home.
“Also the food provided in the packets provides 700 calories per meal which is the nutritional requirement as per recommendations of the UN,” Sreejith said.
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