Dimapur, April 18 (EMN): The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have engaged 13 service providers in eight stations to provide e-catering facilities of meals of their choice during train journey. An update from the Northeast Frontier Railway of Maligaon on Wednesday stated that the eight stations are: Katihar, Kishanganj, New Jalpaiguri, New Bongaigaon, Guwahati, Lumding, Dimapur and New Tinsukia.
According to the update, passengers can avail the option of food of their choice delivered right into their berth on arrival of the train at station. The payment can be made only after receipt of the food.
IRCTC has launched the E-catering project with the objective to facilitate passengers to book meals of their choice few months back. The project has been extended time to time to cover more number of trains on Indian Railways. Ministry of Railways has also decided to widen the reach of this scheme to more stations based on response and feedback received from the passengers and the need to ensure provision of catering services to travelling passengers. Presently there are 409 stations that provide e-catering services in India, the update read.
Apart from the above stations, vendor empanelment for Kamakhya, New Cochbehar, New Alipurduar, Dibrugarh Town, Rangiya, Badarpur & Agartala stations are in process to provide this facility to more and more passengers.
IRCTC has established a call centre and E-catering website at www.ecatering.irctc.co.in. E-catering is available in pre-paid basis online payment as well as cash on delivery basis. Vendor delivers the pre-ordered meal to customer on stationary train at the opted station, the update added.
