{"id":76872,"date":"2017-04-11T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=76872"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:58:49","slug":"check-wastage-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/check-wastage-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Check on wastage of food !"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BJP government is preparing to fix portion sizes of dishes served by star hotels and restaurants, a fortnight after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern about wastage of food in his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a person can eat only two prawns, why should he or she be served six? If a person eats two idlis, why serve four! It\u2019s wastage of food and also money people pay for something that they don\u2019t eat,\u201d said Ram Vilas Paswan, minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution.<\/p>\n

\"Check<\/p>\n

The ministry is drafting a questionnaire for hotels and restaurants to explain what dish sizes they should serve to a customer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the experts. They should tell us the maximum amount of a dish a person can eat. You go to a Chinese restaurant; they give you so much (of food). We are going to call them for a meeting. The PM is concerned about food wastage and so we are going to issue instructions to these hotels (about the amount of food to be served),\u201d Paswan told.<\/p>\n

He, however, clarified the instructions would be applicable to \u201cstandard hotels\u201d and not dhabas that \u201cusually serve thalis\u201d.<\/p>\n

Modi had flagged the issue of food wastage at feasts and termed it as injustice to the poor.<\/p>\n

Paswan\u2019s latest move comes in addition to a slew of consumer-centric proposals that the ministry has incorporated in a new draft bill to amend Consumer Protection Act.<\/p>\n

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The draft bill is at present under law ministry\u2019s consideration. In the new bill, the government has dropped the provision for imprisonment of celebrities for misleading advertisements; instead, a jail term has been proposed for producers or manufacturers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe dropped jail term for celebrities after the group of ministers (GoM) decided to look at how other countries dealt with them. They either imposed a fine or ban (on celebrities) and so we decided to go for the same,\u201d said Paswan.<\/p>\n

As per the new proposal, if the producer is found responsible for misleading ads, the punishment would range from a fine to cancellation of license to a jail term, depending on the frequency of the offence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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