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IRCTC to renew cooked meals provide to passengers in trains quickly: Eastern Railway

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Image Source : FILE IMAGE/PTI IRCTC to renew cooked meals provide to passengers in trains quickly: Eastern Railway`
Cooked meals provide to passengers in trains underneath e-catering providers, which had been suspended as a measure to include the unfold of COVID-19, will resume quickly within the Eastern Railway zone, an official mentioned right here on Sunday. The e-catering providers will likely be restarted quickly at Howrah, Sealdah, Kolkata, Durgapur, Asansol, Malda and Bhagalpur stations underneath the jurisdiction of the ER, he mentioned.
There are plans so as to add Barddhaman, Bolpur and Jamalpur within the checklist of stations from the place the e-catering providers are supplied, the ER spokesperson mentioned.
With the resumption of a number of long-distance and particular trains, there was a rising demand to renew the providers for supplying “hot, healthy and hygienic food to the passengers in the trains by nominated vendors of IRCTC”, he mentioned.

The Railway Board has allowed IRCTC to renew the providers at chosen stations, he mentioned, including that this will likely be supplied in strict adherence to the COVID protocols.
Under e-catering, providers are supplied by numerous meals aggregators empanelled by the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd, he mentioned.
The meals provide providers are additionally made accessible from shops at chosen stations, the official added.
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