{"id":507332,"date":"2022-07-20T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507332"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:11:40","slug":"railways-removes-on-board-service-charges-on-food-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-removes-on-board-service-charges-on-food-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways removes on-board service charges on food items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After facing a backlash on taking an exorbitant service charge on tea being served in one of the premium trains, the Indian Railways has finally removed the on-board service charges on all meals and beverages that are not pre-ordered on premium trains. And the prices of tea and coffee will be the same for all passengers who have pre-booked it or ordered those on the train, and will see no increase in the rates.<\/p>\n<p>The directives have come against the backdrop of a tweet by The Pioneer journalist Deepak Kumar Jha, on June 30. The tweet, which had gone viral, cited the resentment within passengers who had to pay `50 service charge for a `20 cup of tea on-board the express trains making the price of a cup of tea to `70. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After facing a backlash on taking an exorbitant service charge on tea being served in one of the premium trains, the Indian Railways has finally removed the on-board service charges on all meals and beverages that are not pre-ordered on premium trains. And the prices of tea and coffee will be the same for all passengers who have pre-booked it or ordered those on the train, and will see no increase in the rates. The directives have come against the backdrop of a tweet by The Pioneer journalist Deepak Kumar Jha, on June 30. The tweet, which had gone viral, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}