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LIVE: Railway Board issues order to resume serving cooked meals on trains

Discontinued due to Covid restrictions, Railways to resume serving cooked food in trains

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A health worker checks body temperature of a traveler as a precaution against the coronavirus before allowing them to proceed, at a railway station in Mumbai (Photo: PTI)

Latest live news: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday he had decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a year.

"Today I have come to tell you, the whole country, that we have decided to withdraw all three agricultural laws," Modi said in an address to the nation.

“These laws were brought for welfare of farmers, in the interest of the agriculture sector, but we couldn’t explain such a sacred thing to some farmers,” . Modi said in the televised address.

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Railways to resume serving cooked food in trains

The Railway Board has issued an order to resume serving cooked meals to passengers on trains, a service that was discontinued due to COVID-19 restrictions.
 
The Railway Board, in a letter on Friday, asked the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to resume the service.
 
Ready-to-eat meals will also continue to be served to passengers, the Railway board also said.
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Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday said the ongoing anti-farm laws protest will be withdrawn only after the three contentious legislations are repealed in Parliament and legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) for crops made.
 
The influential farmer leader from western Uttar Pradesh also asked supporters not to engage in celebrations as their "struggle" will continue.
 
Tikait, who was in Maharashtra's Palghar for an event on Friday, took to Twitter soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced repealing the three farm laws, which were at the centre of the farmers' protest since November 26 last year.
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First Published: Nov 19 2021 | 7:37 AM IST