chandigarh the state of the art food plaza which served numerous commuters and on board passengers at chandigarh railway station is now shut the culinary plaza was outsourced by indian railways catering and tourism corporation irctc to a contractor who was responsible for running the outlet toi on a visit to station discovered that there was just a single kiosk a snack bar which was operational there the rest of the shops included a book stall even the tea vendor shops were closed at all the platforms the higher authorities are unable to re allocate the kiosk sources said that the contractor refused to run the food plaza stating that he wasnt earning enough profits from this kiosk he eventually surrendered it after serving a threemonth notice rather than getting it extended by the authorities gulshan chief regional manager irctc said that the authorities had floated tenders for the food plaza but there was no response subsequently the higher authorities decided to again float the tenders after completing the process it will be allocated to another contractor he added irctc had launched the food plaza service on august 23 2013 the quintessential feature of the outlet was that it was open 24 hours for the commuters it was done as a rise in number of trains introduced on chandigarh route could also bring a stark surge in footfall at the station thus to cater the passenger with good and hygienic food the outlet offered multicuisines and a variety of options the food plaza is fully air conditioned and sprawls over an area 176 square feet a takeaway option is also available at the kiosk this was the first of four plazas that were planned for cities such as amritsar ferozpur and ambala by aarti kapur tnn published on nov 21 2017 at 0804 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 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app food plaza irctc indian railways gulshan snack bar homenewsno takers for rly food kiosk tender