: Nutrition plan for weight gain I have been training for nearly 2 years now. I started first at age 15 in gym for about one month but stopped because I didn't know how to train back then. When I turned 16 I got dumbbells and

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Citing from the answer I already posted in the comment:

If you have a typical Indian diet like I used to (though I don't want to typecast or stereotype here), it's probably very carbohydrate-heavy. This means a lot of wheat, rice, potatoes and sugar. […]
Cut down wheat, rice, potatoes and sugar to as little as possible (this can mean just one chapati per meal and no rice, or about two tablespoons of rice), and fill up with fruits, vegetables (which does not mean potatoes) and pulses.

let aside all those calculators (which are highly inaccurate by the way, everybody is different. If you get fattier and don't seem to get more muscles, you are doing something wrong. Learn to look at yourself and adapt your eating habits. You can then use calories to alter your diet.
Protein supplements are in no way a magically gaining muscles. I don't think that you need more protein, your diet seems rather protein rich. On the other hand it seems to lack vegetables and fruits, at least from what I read in your question.
I cannot give you much advice on your specific workout, in an hour or in 20 minutes you can do a really great workout that really strains your muscles, or you could be doing a workout that has little to no effect, consisting of a lot of pauses etc.

Repeat specific exercises often enough to have an effect. With repeat I don't mean repetitions, which can be, depending on your goals, between a low number for strength or a higher number for endurance, but I am talking about sets. In all cases do between 3 and 5 sets for all exercises, depending on the exercise.

Variation is important. Your body gets used to specific exercises. So if you are always doing the same exercises, put some variation in them.
If you lack ideas for exercises:
Dumbbell exercises
Exercises sorted by muscle group

Form is important. You can do a lot of things wrong when working out. With a bad form you wont get the results you are looking for. Try to do exercises slowly, when you use your whole body to throw your weights up, you are doing something wrong. Deload to a point where you can do your exercises in a way that you can stop and hold at any point in the exercises range of motion.

Contrary to the above, put on more weight if you can. You have to strain your body. If you do 5 reps 5 sets and are not feeling anything afterwards you either are doing to few reps or using not enough weight. (Again, depending on your goals)

You should, even though you are mostly working out with dumbbells, check out StrongLifts. That site gave me some good ideas for my workout plan, even though I am not using barbells.