Chow down at railway food stalls without worrying about hard cash. File Pic

Digest this: You can soon pay for a samosa at railway food stalls with a debit/credit card. Under Catering Policy 2017, all food and beverage items sold at stalls at zonal railway stations across India will have to be billed and customers will be given the option of choosing between cash and debit/credit card as the mode of payment. Stall vendors, including Jan Aahaar, food plazas and eateries, will have to use point of sale (PoS) swipe machines and offer computerised billing. As of now, only food plazas and Jan Aahaar's offer PoS machines.