India wants law on meal size

INDIA’S government plans to bring in a law to determine the size of helpings served in top hotels and restaurants, in a bid to minimise food wastage.

Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that the hospitality industry would be asked whether it would “voluntarily” accomplish this declaration, or if it needed the government to institute legal provisions to enforce it. “If a per- son can only eat two prawns, why should they be served six?” Mr Paswan asked. He said the ministry now wanted upscale eateries to specify on their menus exactly how much was contained in each of their portions.

It follows a monthly radio broadcast by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 26 in which he dwelt on wastage. “We should only take as much as we can eat,” Mr Modi declared in his

Heart’s Voice programme.