New Delhi. To provide relief to the passengers, Indian Railways is providing cheap food at 100 stations. By setting up 150 stalls at these stations, food is being given to the passengers for Rs 20 and Rs 50. Railways says that the number of these stalls will be increased further. However, last year also this facility was started in the summer season.
Shivaji Maruti Sutar, Director Information and Publicity, Railway Board, says that Indian Railways has started this facility in collaboration with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation. There are more than seven thousand railway stations across the country and it has been started only at 100 stations, in this regard the director says that it has just been started, gradually its number will be increased. At the same time, on the question of hygiene of this cheap food available at the stations, he says that a team has been formed to check the quality of the food, under whose supervision the food is prepared and then delivered to the passengers.
IRCTC will provide darshan of 7 Jyotirlingas for Rs 1800 per day, fare, stay, breakfast, lunch, dinner, everything included.
Started at these stations
Uttar Pradesh- Prayagraj, Kanpur Central, Etawah, Tundla, Aligarh, Fatehpur, Agra Fort, Mahoba, Veerangana Laxmibai Jhansi, Mau, Orai, Sultanpur, Lucknow, Banaras, Gorakhpur, Bina, Pratapgarh.
Rajasthan- Jaipur, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Phulera, Abu Road, Hanumangarh, Rewari in Haryana.
Madhya Pradesh– Gwalior, Jabalpur, Satna, Katni, Itarsi, Ranchi in Jharkhand, Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh.
Maharashtra- Igatpuri, Karjat, Manmad, Khandwa, Badnera, Shegaon, Pune, Miraj, Daund, Sainagar Shirdi, Nagpur, Wardha, Solapur, Wadi, Kurduvadi.
Bihar- Patna, Chhapra, Siwan, Samastipur.
While traveling by train here, you will feel like ‘flying’ in the air, the track is going to start soon, plan now.
Apart from this, cheap food is being provided at all the stations including Kathgodam, Malda, Kharakpur, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Khordha Road, Godia, Bhandara Road, Guntakal Junction, Bharuch, Palanpur.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 24, 2024, 09:21 IST