A fine dining experience like no other! Indian Railways is going all creative to develop an additional source of revenue. To this end, the organisation is coming up with rail restaurants. One such unique restaurant inside a refurbished coach is coming shortly in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.?
In addition to Jabalpur, six other stations under West Central Railway (WCR), will also have these concept restaurants.
The first such initiative was taken by Eastern Railways in 2020, When it had set up a restaurant in an old railway coach at Asansol station in West Bengal, The New Indian Express reported.?
Now, the concept has reached Madhya Pradesh. The restaurant inside an old and unused coach will soon be opened near platform number 6 of Jabalpur railway station, the report said.?
According to Rajesh Dutt Bajpai, executive director (I&P) of Indian Railways, the railways will realise the licence fee from the party that takes the coach on contract for refurbishing under the non-fare revenue (NFR) policy of the Indian Railways.?
"Once the restaurant opens, a revenue of ?13 lakh will be earned annually under non-fare revenue," West Central Railway tweeted.? ?
The NFR policy ensures that the Railways is adding bulk to their income through various sources other than freight and passenger receipts.?
Under this initiative, old train coaches will be refurbished and transformed into rail coach restaurants. However, even after conversion into rail coach restaurants, these train coaches will continue to remain as Indian Railways’ property.??
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