Rajdhani Express to drop a pantry car each to accommodate additional AC-III coach

The Indian Railways is gradually moving towards eliminating pantry cars and embracing e-catering. As a first step, it has decided to withdraw one pantry car each from seven Rajdhani expresses. These will include the ones from Howrah and Sealdah. The pantry car would be dropped to accommodate an extra AC-III tier coach. This will come into effect immediately.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 25 March 2016.

The on-board catering system is always coming in for criticism due to its poor quality of not just food but also service irrespective of which party holds the portfolio of the railways and the Railway Board claims this is the first step towards granting more freedom to Rajdhani passengers in choosing the food they wish to have during the journey. As a result of this decision, breakfast can no longer be prepared on the train and will have to be picked up from a station late in the night and served in the morning. Related service will also be a problem because the catering staff and cleaners used to be accommodated in the pantry cars at night.
From all appearances, it is seen as the first step towards removing pantry cars totally from Rajdhani trains and promote e-catering that has come up at all major stations.


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