The Railway Board has permitted IRCTC to resume the catering services at chosen railway stations.
IRCTC to resume provide of cooked meals to Indian Railways passengers! Under e-catering services of the national transporter, the provide of cooked meals to passengers in trains will resume quickly in the Eastern Railway zone. The practice of supplying cooked meals to railway passengers was suspended as a measure to include the spread of COVID-19. An Eastern Railway spokesperson was quoted in a PTI report saying that the e-catering services of Indian Railways will be restarted quickly at Kolkata, Sealdah, Howrah, Asansol, Malda, Durgapur and Bhagalpur railway stations beneath the jurisdiction of the ER zone. Besides, according to the ER spokesperson, Indian Railways is also arranging to add Barddhaman, Jamalpur and Bolpur in the railway stations’ list from exactly where the e-catering services are supplied.
According to the Eastern Railway spokesperson, with the resumption of quite a few extended distance as nicely as specific train services, there was a expanding demand of railway passengers to resume the catering services for supplying hot, healthful and hygienic meals in the trains by nominated vendors of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The Railway Board has permitted IRCTC to resume the catering services at chosen railway stations, he stated. The catering services will be supplied by IRCTC in strict adherence to the COVID-19 protocols, he additional stated.
Under the e-catering facility of the national transporter, services are supplied by a massive quantity of meals aggregators empanelled by IRCTC, the Eastern Railway spokesperson stated. The services of supplying meals are also produced obtainable from outlets at chosen railway stations, the ER official added.
Recently, the Railway Ministry stated that the quantity of passenger trains is getting improved regularly in a graded manner. According to the Railway Ministry, complete restoration of frequent passenger trains to pre-pandemic instances is to be thought of, thinking of a variety of components as nicely as operational situations. Due to novel coronavirus outbreak, Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways had to cease operating frequent passenger train services on 22 March 2020.