KOLKATA, OCT 19: The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a pilot project of a ‘station-based e-catering’ service which offers passengers to order meals as per their choice and get it delivered at stations from popular private caterers.
In the first phase of the project, all trains passing through 45 specified railway stations, namely Howrah, Sealdah, Guwahati, New Jalpaiguri, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Kharagpur, Mughalsarai, New Delhi, Allahabad, Kanpur Central, Lucknow, Varanasi, Chennai Central, Mumbai Central, Delhi, Bangalore city, Madurai, Amritsar, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Chandigarh, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Jaipur, Bilaspur, Anand Vihar, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Ludhiana, Secunderabad, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Chennai Egmore, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Thrisur, Yasvantpur, Nagpur, Pune, Agra Cantt, Gwalior, Jhansi, Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.
The station-based e-catering, which will be only for stations and not on moving trains, will allow passengers to either order meals online at www.ecatering.irctc.co.in or by calling 0120-2383892-99/1800-1034-139 (toll free) or by sending SMS Meal to 139 with details of PNR and seat number and the meals will be delivered at their berth, IRCTC sources said.
On receiving the meals, passengers have an option of making payment online or through cash on delivery mode.
