Express News Service
NEW DELHI: In a transfer geared toward rising the variety of meals plazas, the fast-food items, and the multi-cuisine eating places at railway stations, the Ministry of Railway has now empowered the final managers (GMs) of all of the 17 zones aside from the IRCTC to make the most of the vacant business areas for organising of food- plazas or different meals items. Following this order, the railways at zone degree would have the ability to arrange greater than 100 static meals plazas and the fast-food items at completely different railway stations along with greater than 300 meals plazas and different items already functioning.
Officials within the know of this mission mentioned that the railways haven’t taken the fitting from IRCTC for organising meals plazas. The railway has solely given permission to all zones along with IRCTC additionally for organising the meals plazas on the websites, that are mendacity vacant for the final one yr or extra occasions.
“The Food Plazas or the fast-food units or the multi cuisines restaurants will be allotted through an open tender process for a period of nine years as stipulated within the catering policy 2017 by the zone at vacant space not still being utilized by IRCTC,” a senior railway official mentioned, including that IRCTC had floated the tenders earlier however because of COVID-19 pandemic, no bidder responded
seeing railway providers impacted by the pandemic badly.
When contacted, the spokesperson of IRCTC Anand Ok Jha mentioned that the IRCTC is already engaged on organising greater than 75 meals plazas within the subsequent few months. “All officials formalities are being completed for setting up more than 75 new food places on priority”, Jha mentioned, including that greater than 300 Food Plazas are already functioning throughout the nation.