Donation, Tax Exemption and You

When you donate to an NGO like Akshaya Patra, you are helping it run the mid-day meal programme and provide millions of children with nutritious meal every day. That’s a social responsibility you take in trying to make a difference and make the world a better place for children. But do you know when you make a donation to support The Akshaya Patra Foundation, you get 100% tax exemption.

Yes, you are hearing it right, there is 100% tax exemption on the donation of Rs 500 or more you make to Akshaya Patra. Your donations are eligible for 100% deduction under Section 35 Ac / 80 GGA of the Indian Income Tax.

“Under Section 35 AC of the Income Tax Act, the Central Government -   on recommendation from the National Committee for the Social & Economic Welfare - has notified the Project “Mid-Day Meal scheme run by The Akshaya Patra Foundation “as an eligible project for the allowing 100% deduction of the contribution made by the Assesse.”

For every donation you makes you shall receive a receipt of the same and a 100 per cent Tax Exemption Certificate from Akshaya Patra. Within 10 working days you will get the documents as said before which you can use to avail 100% Tax Exemption for the current financial year.

And all it takes to help a child with food for education for an entire is just Rs 750 and as it’s more than Rs 500 it is eligible for 100% Tax Exemption.

There are more information available on the foundation’s website. You can visit anytime not just for donation but to know more about Akshaya Patra, how it works, the governance policy, the financials and many more.

President Pranab Mukherjee supports Akshaya Patra

 

In a thrilling development, the Honourable President of India, Pranab Mukherjee met with Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman and Chanchalapati Dasa, Vice-Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation recently. In his discussions with the President, Madhu Pandit Dasa outlined the work and values of the Foundation.

The President in turn expressed his support and appreciation of the work undertaken by The Akshaya Patra Foundation. He expressed his best wishes to the organisation and hope that Akshaya Patra will succeed in its mission of eliminating classroom hunger, and enabling education throughout the country.

Madhu Pandit Dasa responded to the heartfelt support for The Akshaya Patra Foundation from the President of India saying, "We are very honoured to receive the support of The Honourable President, Sri Pranab Mukherjee. This is very crucial for us as we stride to scale-up to meet our mission of reaching five million children by 2020."

 The Akshaya Patra Foundation which started its journey in the year 2000 feeding just 1500 children across five schools, today feeds over 1.4 million children across 10,661 Government and Government aided schools, in 23 locations and 10 states of India.  With a vision that ‘no child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger,’ Akshaya Patra constantly looks to the future to scale up its operations and provide food for education to every child in need. The organisation recently opened up two large-scale, highly mechanised, centralised kitchens; one at Cuttack, and the other at Ahmedabad.

If you would like to support The Akshaya Patra Foundation in its work to eliminate classroom hunger, click to donate online.

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