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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 142572" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: #000000"><p style="text-align: left"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Govt mulls proposal to limit number of guests at weddings</span></span></strong></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">AFP, Feb 22, 2011, 06.05pm IST</span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><span style="color: navy"><strong>NEW DELHI:</strong> The Indian government is considering proposals to limit the number of guests allowed at weddings to reduce food wastage, an official told AFP on Tuesday. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">Indian weddings are famous for their extravagance and a wave of new money in the country has led to ever more lavish marriage celebrations, often involving multi-cuisine buffets and hundreds, or even thousands, of guests. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"We are looking into the possibility of reintroducing the executive guest control order created in the early 1960s," an official at the ministry of food and consumer affairs in </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/New-Delhi" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy">New Delhi</span></a><span style="color: navy"> said. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">The rules limited the number of guests at weddings and other functions to deal with the scarcity of food, he said. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"Today the issue is not scarcity, but food is still being wasted and maximum amount of food is wasted at weddings," the official, who declined to be named, added. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">Such a potentially unpopular move attracted sharp criticism from the opposition, which slammed the government for failing to address serious issues such as food price inflation. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"This is an absurd and obnoxious proposal," Prakash Javdekar, spokesman for the main opposition </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bharatiya-Janata-Party" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy">Bharatiya Janata Party</span></a><span style="color: navy"> (BJP), told the Mail Today newspaper, which ran the story on its front page. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">Food minister </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=KV Thomas" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy">KV Thomas</span></a><span style="color: navy"> calculated nearly 15 percent of all grain and vegetables in </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/India" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy">India</span></a><span style="color: navy"> was wasted through weddings and other social events, the paper said. </span></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"We believe we can preserve foodgrains for the poor and needy of this country by restricting its use at such extravagant and luxurious social functions," Thomas was quoted as saying. </span></p> </p><p></span><p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy"><strong>source:</strong> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-mulls-proposal-to-limit-number-of-guests-at-weddings/articleshow/7548518.cms" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: navy">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-mulls-proposal-to-limit-number-of-guests-at-weddings/articleshow/7548518.cms</span></u></a></p><p></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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