TravelKhana offers the train travelers an exquisite range of food, prepared and packed in a truly hygienic way, at their seat at the Jalgaon Railway Station. The travelers donâ??t have to compromise on the quality of food any more. They need not risk the food made available on the station platform. The passengers can eat comfortably in the bogie, instead of hurriedly gulping down the food. They only need to contact TravelKhana and convey their order an hour or as mentioned before the train reaches Jalgaon.
Jalgaon â?? the Banana City
Jalgaon is called the banana city. The reason is obvious. It contributes half of Maharashtra's banana production, 16 percent of India's and 3 percent of the worldâ??s. Just about 66 percent of Maharashtra's land under banana crop is in Jalgaon.
Jalgaon is known for its drip irrigation industry, pipe manufacturing, fruit processing, pulse milling, biofertiliser production, green/ solar energy and mattress manufacturing. The onion dehydration plant in Jalgaon has the dehydration capacity of 10,000 tones, 15 per cent of the exports of dehydrated onions is from India.
It also is one of the world's largest pulse (beans/ daals) milling centers. Pulse milling began in late seventies. JJ Group, Salecha, Vinod and Adarsh set up milling plants and expanded into multiple plants with hundreds of employees and supplying pulses to all the states and over 20 other countries.
Jalgaon has the world's first audio guided Gandhi Museum, â??Khoj Gandhiji Ki.â?? Gandhi Scholars visit the place. The museum has a large Gandhi Library and other material available for study. The Ajanta Caves are located about 60 km from Jalgaon. The 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments date from the 2nd century BC to about 650 CE. The caves have beautiful paintings of the ancient times.
Among other places of interest close to Jalgaon are Padmalaya Ganesh temple, Manudevi in the Satpuda forest range, Mehrun, which is famous for its 'bor' fruit, Muktainagar named after Sant Muktabai, and the Pal sanctuary. Unapdev on foothills of Satpuda has hot water fountains as its key attraction.
Jalgaon has some quality schools and colleges. The North Maharashtra University is located here and controls the higher education in the Khandesh area.
The Jalgaon menu includes vegetarian, non-vegetarian and Chinese dishes, vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis and a vegetarian maharaja thali. Payment options include credit/debit cards as well as cash on delivery. To retain the freshness of the food and keep it warm, the food is neatly packed in casseroles.
Jalgaon Helpline numbers
Jalgaon Railway Station inquiry: 0257-425001
Jalgaon Railway Police 0257-2234059
Todayâ??s industrialized Jalgaon has reputed educational institutes, good hospitals, well-laid roads, shopping malls, and residential areas. It has a good transport infrastructure. The banana city is on its way to developing further and faster.