IRCTC's smart kitchen

Lavanya Prabhakaran Updated - July 07, 2015 at 01:40 PM.

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The IRCTC’s central kitchen in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, makes and serves 10,000 meals a day on two trains – Ahmedabad Rajdhani and Sealdah Duranto.
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The Railways hopes to increase capacity to 25,000 meals a day within a year.
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Apart from serving the meals on the trains, the kitchen also serves offices such as Supertech, HCL, Samsung, Oxford University Press and McGraw Hill Education.
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The meals for institutions are priced at about ₹60-80 each.
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It provides 6,000 snack items to trains such as Patna Rajdhani, Howrah Rajdhani, and Mumbai August Kranti, among others.
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IRCTC needs to invest Rs 2 crore in equipment to scale up the Noida kitchen’s capacity.
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The vegetables are sourced from Mother Dairy and grocery from Metro Cash and Carry.
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The kitchen is automated to some extent with equipment sourced from Rosinox of France, Hackmann of Finland, and Sottriva of Italy, apart from Ahmedabad-based Servotech.
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IRCTC has an internal laboratory to test the bacteria content of food served from its kitchen
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About 45 per cent of the meals prepared are delivered to trains and 65 per cent sold to institutions.
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Massive chappati makers that roll out uniform-shaped chapatis in less than 80 seconds, steam kettles, which cook up tonnes of well made rice and a cutting machine that chops up about 400 kg of vegetables in an hour– the Indian Railway’s mammoth kitchen in Noida is hi-tech. Collection of images of the smart kitchen.. Photos: Ramesh Sharma

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