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)
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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.
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First Published: Nov 19 2021 | 7:37 AM IST