Hi-tech kitchen to serve meals to devotees

 Annadanam (serving free-meal) is considered to be one of the most divine and auspicious things during Sabarimala pilgrimage season. The Travancore Devaswom Board, on every season, make grand arrangements at Sannidhanam to serve the annadanam to the thousands of devotees each day for the whole pilgrimage season. For this, the board has made necessary arrangements to prepare the food in the hi-tech kitchen and serving it. Forty employees have been working here to meet the demands and for the smooth functioning of the Annadanamandapam here.

The kitchen, this time, has removed the use of firewood and gas is used as the replacement. This has helped the kitchen to be more environment-friendly. From preparing to serving and then to deal with the food wastes, the staff was given instruction and they are following it with great care. The Mandapam will be cleaned every day and the food wastes being removed. The help of machines has been sought to clean the utensils here.

The Annadanamandapam at a time can hold 2000 devotees and in a day, 40,000 devotees can be served with food here.