Call it the influence of a woman railway minister or an acknowledgement that the fairer sex is a better homemaker - the South Eastern Railway (SER) has deployed a team of its female employees to test the quality of food and beverages served in trains.

The initiative is a brainchild of SER general manager AK Jain who constituted the team comprising five women officials spearheaded by assistant commercial manager Indrani Bandyopadhyay.