Soon, meals in trains to come with barcodes
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:26.02.2019
Soon, the food packets prepared by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will get barcodes. Passengers can scan the barcode using their mobile phones to see the live footage of the kitchen, where the food was prepared, railway minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. He added that it would help passengers to decide whether to eat the food or not.
“My ultimate thought is that each food packet will get a barcode. You can scan the barcode using your phone and can see the kitchen. You can see and decide whether you want to eat the food or not. The food packets will mention the kitchen number and the time and date of packing. If the food is bad, you can file a complaint quoting the kitchen number and other details,” Goyal told reporters after launching “raildrishti,” a website aimed at making maximum railway related information and date in public domain.
On asked how soon the initiative will be rolled out, Goyal said they work is underway to get the backend operation in place. Claiming that “raildrishti” will bring total transparency and put information in public domain for scrutiny, Goyal said the focus of Narendra Modi government has been “accountability to people.”
He added that since government has put most of the information in public domain, “perhaps there are hardly any RTI applications” and there is “no scope for RTI.”
The “raildrishti” portal also provides live information about the train status, numbers of housing keeping staff and can key in details for PNR inquiry and complaint inquiry.
The website dashboard will display the number of tickers sold, income generated (per day, per week, per month and per year) from both tickets and freight. Companies and traders can use it for tender inquiry and freight related inquiries. The website dashboard also provides the facility to view live feeds from the cameras installed in various IRCTC base kitchens.
IN THE PIPELINE: One can scan the barcode to see the live footage of the kitchen where the food was prepared
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:26.02.2019
Soon, the food packets prepared by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will get barcodes. Passengers can scan the barcode using their mobile phones to see the live footage of the kitchen, where the food was prepared, railway minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. He added that it would help passengers to decide whether to eat the food or not.
“My ultimate thought is that each food packet will get a barcode. You can scan the barcode using your phone and can see the kitchen. You can see and decide whether you want to eat the food or not. The food packets will mention the kitchen number and the time and date of packing. If the food is bad, you can file a complaint quoting the kitchen number and other details,” Goyal told reporters after launching “raildrishti,” a website aimed at making maximum railway related information and date in public domain.
On asked how soon the initiative will be rolled out, Goyal said they work is underway to get the backend operation in place. Claiming that “raildrishti” will bring total transparency and put information in public domain for scrutiny, Goyal said the focus of Narendra Modi government has been “accountability to people.”
He added that since government has put most of the information in public domain, “perhaps there are hardly any RTI applications” and there is “no scope for RTI.”
The “raildrishti” portal also provides live information about the train status, numbers of housing keeping staff and can key in details for PNR inquiry and complaint inquiry.
The website dashboard will display the number of tickers sold, income generated (per day, per week, per month and per year) from both tickets and freight. Companies and traders can use it for tender inquiry and freight related inquiries. The website dashboard also provides the facility to view live feeds from the cameras installed in various IRCTC base kitchens.
IN THE PIPELINE: One can scan the barcode to see the live footage of the kitchen where the food was prepared
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