00:00Now let's turn our attention to one of the busiest places in the national capital.
00:06I'm talking about the railway station.
00:08Thousands of people eat around the New Delhi railway station every day.
00:12But what happens in the kitchens behind those plates?
00:15India today went undercover and found food cooked in open next to dirty drains and a
00:22manager who says a license is all you need.
00:27This is what travellers in the national capital are eating.
00:51This is New Delhi railway station, the heart of the capital.
00:58So many locals, so many tourists, so many families grab a bite here.
01:05But you will be shocked by the kitchens we saw.
01:10Food is cooked in the open, right next to filthy drains.
01:16The cooks follow no basic hygiene, no hair nets, no gloves.
01:23This is the Madras Hotel and the manager has no answers as to why basic norms are not being
01:40followed.
01:53We then asked him about pests and cockroaches all over.
01:57And his response?
02:00We do everything we can.
02:07And the police.
02:08That's the one that we have to do.
02:08We are going to do pest control.
02:09So we do pest control.
02:10We do pest control.
02:12We do pest control.
02:12We do pest control.
02:12But they will not do it.
02:14We will not check.
02:15I am saying that it is common.
02:17It is common.
02:17It is a pest control.
02:20We have to do pest control.
02:28Once again we ask, how is it that nobody checks if food safety is being followed?
02:35We are reassured that there is no issue whatsoever as long as you have a license.
03:02Food being cooked outside on a dirty lane next to a drain.
03:07We see it all.
03:10And yet Kumar denies it.
03:31A license on the wall is not hygiene in the kitchen.
03:35When food for thousands of travellers is made like this, who is checking and how often?
03:44The answer is nobody.
03:47A report by Special Investigation Team's Nitin Jain for India Today.
