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Indian Railways restarts live catering in trains

2021-11-202021-11-20 | Sanjay Kumar

Indian Railways has decided to resume live catering services in all long-distance trains, given the restoration of normal train services a week ago, and asked IRCTC to restore live catering services as before. Live catering services, involving the cooking and delivery of food in specially designed kitchen cars on trains, were stopped in February last […]

COVID-19 hurts IRCTC’s plans; Ticket sales still down 77%

2020-07-142020-07-14 | Sanjay Kumar

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, which sells about 73% of India’s reserved railway tickets, said ticket sales continue to be down by about 77%-78%; almost a month-and-a-half after long-distance trains were restarted. “Pre-COVID, we were doing 60 cr rupees worth of tickets a day,” said IRCTC CMD MP Mall. “Now, it’s 13-14 cr.” […]