new delhi train passengers will now find it easier to make online payments for the food ordered through ecatering with indian railway catering and tourism corporation irctc entering into a tieup with paytm a leading payment and ecommerce shopping website we have roped in paytm for providing maximum option to passengers for making online payments efforts are also underway to bring in some more reputed caterers in our ecatering portfolio said irctc chairman and managing director ak manocha travelling passengers will have an array of choices for making payments for ecatering like prepaid online payment or cash on delivery cod as per their convenience our tieup with paytm will provide an additional payment gateway for food of their choice in the new age we have to offer passengers not only novel food options but also more convenient payment methods the arrangement with paytm is an effort in that direction he pointed out irctc a psu of indian railways clocks 55 to 6 lakh eticketing bookings daily on an average we send an email to travelling passengers one day in advance to know whether they would like to avail of ecatering facility food can also be ordered on our website while booking reservations he said in order to popularise our operations irctc has created a userfriendly website and has been sending sms email to all eticket passengers for ecatering facility known as food on track irctc has already tied up with online delivery firm food panda enabling consumers to order from a variety of cuisine options we are in talks with several other reputed catering companies and fast food giants like mcdonalds bikanerwala nirulas sagar ratna wangs kitchen sarvana bhavan and bittu tikki wala he informed irctc is trying to impanel food aggregators like subway and pizza hut to expand catering choices for passengers it has started website integration with dominos pizza for seamless order by rail travellers food panda which is already empanelled will soon be visible on the irctcs website currently irctc provides ecatering facility in 1516 trains without pantry cars in addition it provides station based food on track facility at 45 stations including howrah new delhi chennai central mumbai central delhi bangalore city patna lucknow bhubaneswar madurai and amritsar among others the ecatering facility allows passengers to order meals while travelling either online on wwwecateringirctccoin or by making a phone call to 0120238389299 or the tollfree number at 18001034139 they can also choose to do so through an sms to 139 by giving details of their pnr and seat number pti published on dec 17 2015 at 0846 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of