Indian Railways: More berths for passengers in Rajdhani trains

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: All eight Rajdhani trains including Mumbai, Howrah, Dibrugarh, Patna, Sealdah will have now only one pantry car instead of two.

The pantry cars will be replaced with one AC-3 coach in these Rajdhani trains to increase the availability of berths for passengers.

There are total 17 Rajdhani trains out of which nine have one pantry car each and rest have two pantry cars. Rajdhani for Bhubaneswar, Trivandrum, Jammu, Chennai among others have only one pantry car.

The process of replacing pantry cars with AC-3 coaches is underway and it will be completed by March 31 so that all these Rajdhani trains will have about 600 additional berths from April 1.

Besides, railways is also introducing the option for Rajdhani passengers to choose the e-catering facility or the onboard arrangement on trains.

Railways is also in the process of changing the catering policy in a significant way to do away with train-based tendering system.

As per the proposal, railways will introduce the two-pronged system of tendering for production and distribution of food at rail premises.

There will be about 250 base kitchens at all major stations across the country to prepare about six lakh meals and snacks per day.

With PTI Inputs