<h1>MoU for CSR-funded PPP to build centralised kitchen scaling mid-day meals 10k?100k; compliance under Section 135: permits, food, labour, environment</h1> A downstream energy company and a national social-impact foundation executed an MoU to construct a centralised kitchen in Kanpur to scale mid-day meal capacity from 10,000 to 100,000 daily beneficiaries under the government's school-nutrition scheme. The arrangement is structured as a CSR-funded public-private partnership with the foundation as the implementing partner, implicating compliance obligations: permitting, land-use and zoning at the identified parcel, food-safety and labour regulations, contractual delivery and distribution obligations (including GPS-tracked vehicles and EV deployment), waste-management and environmental approvals for solar, water-recycling and biogas systems, and potential reputational and operational liability exposure.