Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has started catering services of cooked food in all passenger trains of Indian Railways from February 14, 2022. Catering services were suspended as safety measures in view of the Coronavirus pandemic were in place since March 23, 2020.
Cooked food has already been restored in 428 trains. Of the total number of trains, cooked food had already been restored in 30% by December 2021, 80% by January 2022 and the remaining 20% shall be restored from February 14, 2022.
IRCTC is the only entity authorised by the Indian railways to provide catering services to railways, online railway tickets and packaged drinking water at railway stations and trains in India.
