Passengers Traveling in Rajdhani Express Denied Meals

A section of passengers travelling by the prestigious New Delhi-Patna Rajdhani Express (12310) detained the train for about 2 hours at  Allahabad on Saturday night in protest against non-supply of meals to them. They halted the train and made sure the train did not move unless they were served meals. However, the train was allowed to move by around 10 pm on Saturday night after direct intervention of railway and IRCTC officials.

These harried passengers lodged a complaint with railway officials at Patna Junction when the train reached here at 9.30 am on Sunday morning.

Narrating their nightmarish experiences, a few passengers, told TOI the train left New Delhi only around midnight on Friday. A few of the passengers were served meals on the train and the rest were assured that they would get it at Tundla. However, this was not done, they said.

According to passengers, they were not served meals at Kanpur also where the train reached at 11 am on Saturday. Most of the hungry passengers were again assured that they would get meals at Allahabad where the train reached at 8 pm on Saturday night. Thus, most of the hungry passengers, including women and children, ran out of their patience and detained the train demanding meals and water, they said. Patna-based IRCTC regional manager A K Jha attributed the incident to abnormally late running of trains.

In fact, about 700 passengers are normally served meals in the Rajdhani Express.


Source - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Rajdhani-Express-passengers-denied-meals/articleshow/7250496.cms