NEW DELHI: In a bid to minimise food wastage, the Narendra Modi led Central government now wants restaurants to specify portion size of servings.Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said the hospitality industry would be asked whether it can do it "voluntarily" or or needed the government to make legal provisions for it.Paswan said the government does not want to fix the quantum of food that needs to be served by hotels and restaurants."We are just asking them to specify how many chapatis or idlis or chicken pieces you will serve (in a plate)," he was quoted by PTI.Asked whether the government wanted to introduce uniformity in the amount of food served in a portion, he reportedly said, "We just want them to specify and mention (in the menu card) that how much they would serve in a portion."In plate system, a hotel or restaurant normally does not specify how much food they serve, like the number of chapatis or the amount of rice.However, some news websites went on to claim that the government is in the process to fix portion sizes.“If 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’s wastage of food and also money people pay for something that they don’t eat,” Hindustan Times quoted Ram Vilas Paswan, minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution "We are calling a meeting (of stakeholders). The PM is concerned about food wastage and we are going to issue instructions to these hotels,” Paswan was quoted as saying.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had raised concerns over wastage of food in his Mann ki Baat programme last month. He had said food wastage at social gatherings is injustice to the poor.