Railway New Service: Indian Railways is making special arrangements for food in trains, so that if the passenger is not carrying food from home during the journey, he does not face any problem on the way. High quality food can be provided. For this, preparations have been made to build 110 pantry cars, which will be installed in trains as per the need.
According to Deepak Kumar, Chief Public Relations Officer of Northern Railway, currently all premium trains like Vande Bharat, Shatabdi, Rajdhani, Tejas have pantry cars. People traveling in these trains do not face any problem, although many superfast and express trains also have pantry cars, but the passengers traveling in special trains face the most problems.
Actually, these special trains run mainly during Holi, Diwali, Thapa, Rakshabandhan and summer holidays. That is, they do not run regularly. Due to this, passengers traveling in trains face problems in eating and drinking. Out of compulsion, these passengers have to take food from vendors selling food in trains. Many times unauthorized vendors board trains and sell food, which is expensive as well as not of good quality. Also, the vehicles of railway vendors are not installed at all stations, this facility is only at big stations and in many places big stations are quite far away. During this time, passengers traveling in trains should not face any kind of problem. Keeping this in mind, Indian Railways has decided to prepare 110 pantries in the next two years. In this way, 55 pantry cars will be ready in the year 2024-25 and 55 in 2025-26, which will be installed in trains.
That is why there is no pantry car in special trains
According to Deepak Kumar, it is not possible to install pantry cars in all special trains. Indian Railways does not have that many pantry cars. Pantry cars are installed in some special trains. For other special trains, arrangements are made to install vendor carts on the platform outside the coach, so that passengers do not face any problem in eating and drinking during the journey.