Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is implementing a new system for food service on trains in the Northeast Railway zone. They will create clusters at Gorakhpur, Lucknow, and Varanasi stations to provide lunch and dinner for trains departing from these stations. This means that all food will be prepared...
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and distributed from these clusters, eliminating the use of contractors on the train routes. IRCTC is collecting information on average passenger travel and train schedules to plan food supplies. The aim is to improve food quality and consistency by providing standardized meals, eliminating the current practice of different contractors providing varying levels of quality on different trains.