Railways to restart e-catering providers for passengers from this date

Image Source : PTI File photograph: Commuters journey within the Chennai-Madurai tremendous quick particular practice as Southern Railway resumed providers after suspension as a consequence of COVID-19 outbreak, in Chennai. (Representational picture)
Railways has introduced that it has determined to restart e-catering providers for passengers from the primary week of February 2021, Indian Railways knowledgeable. The e-catering providers have been suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Earlier, a Railway official had knowledgeable that cooked meals provide to passengers in trains below e-catering providers, which have been suspended as a measure to comprise the unfold of COVID-19, will resume quickly within the Eastern Railway Zone. The e-catering providers might be restarted quickly at Howrah, Sealdah, Kolkata, Durgapur, Asansol, Malda and Bhagalpur stations below the jurisdiction of the ER, he mentioned.

There are plans so as to add Barddhaman, Bolpur and Jamalpur within the listing of stations from the place the e-catering providers are supplied, the ER spokesperson mentioned.

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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 might 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 out there from shops at chosen stations, the official added.

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