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India's Public Distribution System Provides Subsidized Food to Poor
1. Public Distribution System (PDS)is an Indian
food security system established by the
govt.of india under the ministry of consumer
affairs ,food and public distribution and
managed jointly with state government in
india .it distributes subsidized food and non
food items to India’s poor.
2. ⚫The scheme was launched in Indiaon June 1997
⚫Food Corporation of India procuresand maintains the
Public Distribution System.
⚫The main objectiveof the food securitydepartment is
toensure food security for thecountry through timely
and efficient procurement and distribution of food
grains.
⚫Bothcentral and stategovernmentsshared the
responsibilityof regulating the PDS.
3. Objectives
⚫The objectives of PDS is to ensure food security and
povertyalleviation by making available theessential
commodities , specially food grains at an affordable
and uniform priceat thedoorstepsof theconsumers.
4. Functioning of PDS
⚫Procurementof food grains.
⚫Identificationof poorand needy.
⚫Issueof ration cards to poorpeople.
⚫Transportation of food grains toall fairprice shops.
⚫Selling food grains toall the needy people.
5. Public Distribution Shop
⚫There are about 4.99 lakh fair price shops
across India
⚫Locally these are known as ration shops.
Ration Card
The Indian Ration card is mainly used for purchasing
subsidized food and fuel
Types of cards
AAY BPL APL
Annapurna
6. PDS Commodities
⚫Wheat
⚫Rice
⚫Sugar
⚫Kerosene
⚫Under PDS schemeeach family below the poverty line
is eligible for 35 kg of rice orwheatevery month, while
a household above the poverty line is entitled to 15 kg
of food grain on a monthly basis.
7. Kerala State Civil Supplies
Department
⚫KSCSD discharges the importantresponsibilitiesof
publicdistribution in kerala.
⚫There are 8260619 ration cards in Kerala.
⚫The civil supplies ministerof kerala is Anoop Jacob
⚫The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation provides
custom milled rice, levy sugarand Atta.
8. Limitations of PDS
⚫Poor identification is not fool proof.
⚫Fairprice shopowners gets bogus ration cards.
⚫Peopledo notget theentitled amountof food grains.
⚫Good quality food grains are replaced with poor
quality items.
⚫Uneven distributionof food grains.
