{"id":654147,"date":"2025-11-27T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654147"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:29:43","slug":"irctcs-new-vande-bharat-booking-change-leaves-passengers-confused-over-default-meal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irctcs-new-vande-bharat-booking-change-leaves-passengers-confused-over-default-meal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCTC\u2019s new Vande Bharat booking change leaves passengers confused over default meal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: IRCTC\u2019s decision to relocate the \u2018no food\u2019 option while booking Vande Bharat train tickets online has caused considerable confusion among commuters. <\/p>\n<p>The changes, introduced on the IRCTC portal last month, now result in passengers being charged the full catering fare by default unless they select a newly-added option to decline food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: IRCTC\u2019s decision to relocate the \u2018no food\u2019 option while booking Vande Bharat train tickets online has caused considerable confusion among commuters. The changes, introduced on the IRCTC portal last month, now result in passengers being charged the full catering fare by default unless they select a newly-added option to decline food.<\/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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654147","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=654147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}