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New Delhi : Union Minister for Railways & Coal Piyush Goyal on April 12, 2018, interacted with Food and Beverages (F&B) Industries players through video conferencing while on fast from Thane.

The meeting was attended by key players from the Food & Beverage industry viz. Hindustan Unilever Limited, Café Coffee Day, Nestle, Travel Food Services, MoM, Bikanerwala, Taj SATS, R K Associates, Arenco Catering, Jubliant Food Services, Punjabi Ghasitaram Halwai (P) Ltd., CAFS, etc. The meeting was also attended by senior officials from Ministry of Railways & IRCTC.

The meeting was held with the objectives to bring on board important suggestions and problems facing the key industrial players of F&B industry who are important stakeholders in delivery of catering services on Indian Railways, according to a PIB release.

The industrail players said that the rates should be increased automatically with time by indexing it with WPI/CPI. Market driven prices should be given by Railways with periodical revision, they said adding non increase in rates of food items for years has impacted quality of mobile catering services.I mprovement in Pantry cars and its cleanliness issues was also raised by them.

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