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initially was largely an urban phenomenon relying largely on food imports and was used mainly as a price stabilizing tool. The setting up of the
Foodgrains Prices Committee in 1964 strengthened the position of the PDS. The government committed itself to announce a minimum support price (MSP) to promote agriculture and the stocks procured were to be used towards meeting the needs of the PDS. If procurement fell short, the government was to resort to imports and other measures such as monopoly procurement, and levy on farmers. In the subsequent decades, the coverage and reach of the PDS expanded considerably on the back of various state-led schemes and the increased need for foodgrains to implement various regional and poverty programmes. The total number of ration shops increased from around 50,000 in 1960 to around 3,50,000 by 1990-91 and the quantity of foodgrains distributed increased from about 5 million tonnes in 1960–61 to about 16 million tonnes in 1990–91. In June 1992, the 'revamped' PDS scheme was launched with the aim of covering 1750 blocks in hilly, remote, and inaccessible areas with the per kg. issue price to states set to 50 paise below the central issue price. By this time, the urban bias that was a characteristic of the PDS in the early post-independence years had largely disappeared. Nonetheless, the overall coverage of PDS was quite limited and patchy till this point. As per data from the National Sample Surveys (NSS), only 27% of rural and 29% of urban households purchased grains from the PDS in 1993–94. This was despite the fact that all through this while the PDS was in principle a
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government's procurement cost. Till 2000–01, APL households were entitled to purchase 15 kg of grains at 75% of the procurement cost, after which they had to pay the full economic cost. In 2000, the
Antyodaya (AAY) category was added which covered 1 crore (later 2 crore) 'poorest of the poor' households that were entitled to 25 kg (later 35 kg) of grains per month from the PDS irrespective of family size at Rs. 3/kg for rice and Rs. 2/kg for wheat. The targeted approach to the PDS brought with it two implementational challenges: (i) estimating the number of poor to be covered by the BPL category and (ii) identifying the poor in accordance with the coverage targets determined. It was decided that the coverage of BPL households would be based on the state-wise poverty head count ratios estimated from the 1993-94 NSS consumption expenditure survey. This made the highly contentious 'poverty line' extremely salient in welfare policy. In order to identify eligible households, the government initially used results of a survey conducted in 1992–03 to identify beneficiaries of the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP). Subsequently, the government conducted a BPL Census in 2002 which scored households on 13 different parameters covering assets, occupation, land ownership etc. and identified BPL households as those falling below a certain cut-off.
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population census figures to arrive at state-wise coverage targets and allocations. However, by 2020, the NFSA covered only 59% of the projected population, resulting in an under-coverage of over 100 million people. This under-coverage is mainly because the central government froze the coverage targets based on the now-outdated 2011 census and has not updated them ever since despite sustained population growth in the last decade or so. This remains an important unresolved issue to date. In addition to the 59% population covered under the NFSA, another 11% were covered under state schemes, majority of whom (7 percentage points) receive NFSA equivalent entitlements or more. These come from states that run an "expanded PDS", increasing coverage and/or reducing issue prices beyond NFSA mandates - this includes southern states (Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana) as well as poorer states like
Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal. Including the population covered under state schemes, 950 million persons were covered by the PDS, with 899 million having NFSA equivalent entitlements or more. Besides enhanced coverage, some states also reduced the issue prices at their own costs. In Tamil Nadu, rice is distributed free of cost to all entitled cardholders and Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha provide rice at a lower price than the central government's issue price.
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and Nagar Haveli, the government replaced PDS with cash transfers in
September 2015. A full year into the programme, roughly 20% of beneficiaries did not receive their benefits and for a majority of beneficiaries the costs (in terms of time and money) involved in going to the bank and accessing cash was higher that accessing PDS grains. Similarly, in 2018 the government piloted the 'DBT for Rations' (DBT = Direct Benefit Transfer) scheme in Nagri block of Jharkhand. A study of the pilot found that on an average, households only received two of the four instalments due to them since the start of pilot. Further, on an average, households said that the whole process of withdrawing money and purchasing their monthly entitlement of grains took 12 hours on an average. These results were qualitatively confirmed by another study of the pilot. The public opposition to this reform was so strong that the government was forced to roll it back shortly after. The experience of these pilot experiments suggest that there could be high transition costs associated with switching from a well-established PDS to a system of cash transfers. Further, evidence from cash transfers in NREGA suggest that, even with well established systems in place, the time and costs involved in accessing cash transfers can be very high in rural areas.
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per-capita entitlements and discarding the APL-BPL method of targeting households. The All-India coverage of the PDS was set to 67% of the population, with 75% coverage in rural areas and 50% in urban areas with poorer states getting higher coverage than poorer states (see table below). In several cases, however, states felt the coverage was too low. The price at which rice, wheat and millets were sold from the PDS were almost halved and fixed at Rs. 3, Rs. 2, and Rs. 1 per kg. respectively. While the NFSA did not universalize the PDS and continued with a targeted approach, it did discarded the APL-BPL method of targeting and left the selection of eligible households on state governments. Households were now to be divided into
Priority households (PHH) and Antyodaya (AAY) only with the APL category disbanded. Entitlements of 5 kg per person per month were set for PHH households and 35 kg per household irrespective of family size for AAY households. Various states relied on simple inclusion-exclusion criteria to identify eligible households, often using the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) or other recent data they had.
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study found that households increased consumption of protein and other nutrients relative to households in bordering districts of neighbouring states. Another study found moderate increases in households nutrient intake and diet quality resulting from the universalization of the PDS in the 8 districts in the
Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) region in Odisha. At the All-India level, one study finds that increases in the value of PDS transfers resulting from random price shocks at the district-level leads to significant increase in caloric intake of not just cereals (distributed via the PDS) but also other food groups not catered to via the PDS as well. This suggests possible 'crowd-in' effects of the PDS on nutrition. So far, only one study analyzes the effect of the roll-out of NFSA on nutritional outcomes - it finds that increase in PDS subsidy increases dietary diversity and caloric intake and also find evidence for crowd-in of non-staple food groups. Additionally, it finds that increase in PDS transfers led to higher wages and significant reduction of child stunting.
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state-wide heterogeneity, with very low levels of leakages in states like Andhra
Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and very high leakages in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan. This was likely due to a number of factors including lower overall coverage of the PDS, reduced consumer base of fair price shops, low levels of utilization and a shift in the PDS away from the places that it worked well. Two important dimensions of the leakage issue are worth noting. First, leakages were considerably higher for rice than wheat. Estimated leakages for rice were lower than for wheat in almost all states and per-capita wheat purchases remained low and leakages high during this period. Second, leakages from the APL allocation were more than twice as high than the leakages from the BPL allocation, possibly since the APL allocations fluctuated arbitrarily and hence APL households often did not know what they were entitled to. Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that the APL quota of states was an important predictor of the overall level of leakages.
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of the consumption distribution excluded. On the other hand, among the richest 40% of households, roughly 20%-25% possessed a ration card. A majority of the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST), and other backward class (OBC) households were excluded from the PDS. In total, only 34% of households had a BPL or AAY card. The message from these numbers was clear - the targeting process based on poverty lines and the BPL census led to severe exclusion and inclusion errors. This message was further strengthened by numerous state-specific studies. In most states, the shift to the targeted PDS resulted in decline in per-capita PDS purchases between 1999-2000 and 2004–05. The states worst affected by the reform were Kerala and Tamil Nadu which historically had high PDS coverage and purchases prior to 1997–98. While the issue was partly related to poor design and implementation of the 2002 BPL Census, the very idea of defining the coverage base of PDS based on poverty lines continued to be fraught with various unresolved conceptual issues.
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possible. Nonetheless, evidence from numerous small-scale surveys points to increase in coverage, decline in exclusion errors, reduction in leakages, and improved transportation of grains. A six-state survey covering 3,800 households across Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal found that the PDS was "near universal" in rural areas of these states, inclusion and exclusion errors were down, and majority of households in MP, Odisha and West Bengal received their full entitlements from PDS. Even in Jharkhand, one of the states with poorest performing PDS in the early 2000s with leakages as high as 85%, multiple surveys point to clean-up of beneficiary lists, significant reduction in leakages, enhanced coverage, and significant overall improvement in the performance of the PDS post implementation of the NFSA. By 2017, leakages were down to about 15% in aggregate and about 7%-10% conditional on purchasing from the PDS.
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the PDS was higher in states where the PDS worked well (measured in-terms of leakages). A major explanation that households gave was that they felt more food secure with PDS grains as opposed to cash transfers. This is borne out by other by another study - using data from successive rounds of NSS consumption surveys, the authors argue that in-kind transfers via the PDS maybe superior to cash transfers by shielding households against price shocks and inflation and thereby weakening the relationship between prices and caloric intake. Another factor for preferring PDS over cash was the poor development of rural markets – for an average rural household, the nearest PDS outlet was located about 1 to 2 km closer than the closest grain market. Moreover, as of 2011, there were about half a million PDS shops covering about 75% villages, compared to only 8% of villages with a bank branch and 25% of villages with a post-office.
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consumption deciles moved from APL to BPL entitlements. The share of households actually purchasing grains from the PDS also increased significantly from 25% in 2004–05 to 50% in 2011–12. Further, PDS accounted for nearly 46% of total household rice purchases. This improvement in PDS utilization was matched by a reduction in leakages between 2004–05 and 2011–12. At the All-India level, between 2004–05 and 2011–12, leakages fell from 54% to 42% based on NSS estimates and from 49% to 32% based on the India Human
Development Survey (IHDS). While this improvement was modest, it showed that improvements in PDS functioning was certainly possible. The erstwhile poorly performing states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha saw significant improvements and states like Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, where the PDS was already performing well, consolidated their positions further.
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least partly motivated by the high-levels of leakages observed from the PDS. The calls for a switch from in-kind PDS to cash transfers are based on the following key arguments (among others). First, as opposed to the current PDS system which involves running the extensive procurement, storage, and distribution system, cash transfers are viewed as a more efficient way of transferring a given value of transfer with lower transaction costs. The reduced middle-men in the process make cash transfers seem less prone to corruption. Second, cash transfers render greater choice to the beneficiaries by allowing them to choose whether they want to spend the extra income on food or some other commodity. Third, the reliance of the PDS on public procurement of grains necessitates government involvement in the agricultural markets which is frowned upon by many.
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Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh were denied their food rations due to ABBA. The reason for these exclusions is because ABBA rests on a fragile technological infrastructure that needs to work simultaneously in order to for authentication to work: Aadhaar 'seeding' (i.e. linking Aadhaar number with PDS ration card), point of sale (Pos) machine, internet connectivity, remote Aadhaar servers, and biometric authentication. Failure at any of these steps, for technical reasons or otherwise, leads to unsuccessful authentication. In fact, official data from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) itself suggested that in early 2018 about 12% of authentication requests for government services failed.
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supplemented the central subsidy to reduce issue prices and/or expand coverage. Starting 2009–10, Kerala decided to automatically include all SC, ST and fisherperson households as well as destitute persons; subsequently in 2010–11, all agricultural labourer households and traditional industrial worker households were automatically eligible for subsidized grains irrespective of APL/BPL status. Another likely factor contributing to the PDS revival was the significant rise in global food prices around this time which led to a rise in domestic food prices. This led to increase in the value of PDS subsidy for households which evidence suggests led to increases in PDS purchases in most states.
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plug some leakages by improving verification of past records and supply chain management. One of these studies argues that a subsequent 'reconciliation' reform (after ABBA was enforced for some months) in Jharkhand where the government tracked the quantities of grains sold in previous months before making new disbursements led to reduction in leakages from the government's point of view. However, this interpretation has been questioned since the reduced leakages were short-lived, came at the cost of large-scale exclusion and a severe reduction in the quantity of grains disbursed to beneficiaries, and the reform had to be called-off within 3 months due to large-scale opposition.
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states run an expanded PDS of some form. Of these, most notably Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have expanded coverage and provide NFSA equivalent entitlements or more to these added beneficiaries (the rest have expanded coverage but provide lesser entitlements against NFSA). Among these, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal finance their expanded PDS entirely out of state funds while the others receive some financial assistance from the central government in the form of 'tide-over' grains.
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political will. There was evidence of corruption from the PDS as well as lack of progressiveness of benefits. This led to some calls for replacing the PDS with direct income transfers. Further, in the wake of the structural adjustment policies that came with the 1991 economic reforms, 'targeting' (i.e. restricting welfare benefits only to the poor) gained prominence as a way of enhancing coverage among the poor while reducing fiscal expenditures.
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transportation, and bulk allocation of food grains, state governments hold the responsibility for distributing the same to the consumers through the established network of fair price shops (FPSs). State governments are also responsible for operational responsibilities of the NFSA including identification of eligible families in compliance with NFSA coverage targets, issue of ration cards, and monitoring of the distribution system.
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now present their fingerprints to authenticate their identity. The claim was that integrating Aadhaar would help in identifying ghosts, fakes, and duplicate beneficiaries in the PDS lists, enforce stricter identity verification, improve supply-chain management and reduce corruption in the system. These claims have been questioned and observed have argued that they over-sell the
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and state government. The items from these shops are much cheaper but are of average quality. Ration shops are now present in most localities, villages towns and cities. India has more than 5.5 lakh (0.55 million) shops, constituting the largest distribution network in the world (According to 2011 census).
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few fakes or ghosts in the PDS lists of the surveyed states. This stands in contrast to the governments claim in September 2016 that it had deleted 2.33 crore ration cards thanks to Aadhaar. This widely circulated figure was subsequently shown to be misleading since most of the these deletions had happened
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shops and public distribution shops, and chiefly sell wheat, rice and sugar at a price lower than the market price called Issue Price. Other essential commodities may also be sold. To buy items one must have a ration card. These shops are operated throughout the country by joint assistance of central
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Starting around 2015–16, Aadhaar-based biometric authentication (ABBA) was made mandatory for accessing PDS rations in various states, ostensibly with the aim of reducing leakages and corruption in the PDS. This means that in order to collect their monthly grain entitlements, ration card holders must
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found that at most 3% of total ration cards in the state were fake or ghosts. Similarly, in the state of Odisha, the role of Aadhaar in identifying ghosts and fakes was found to very small - only 4% of ration cards deleted were on account of Aadhaar. Another 6-state survey conducted in 2016 reports
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or because they live in unauthorized colonies. Lack of clarity in the planning and structuring of social safety and security programs in India has resulted in the creation of numerous cards for the poor. Limited information about the overall use of cards has discouraged families below the poverty
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scheme such that every Indian was entitled to a ration card and purchase grains from the PDS. Some observers attributed the limited access to the steadily rising prices at which grains were sold from the PDS (i.e. the issue prices) while others blamed poor administration, corruption, and lack of
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These improvements were largely the outcome of various bold initiatives by many state governments. Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh moved towards universalization of their PDS, Chhattisgarh did away with private PDS dealers and implemented a stronger monitoring system, and various other states
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are the net surplus producer of the food, while most of the states in India are net consumer of the food.
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Kapur, D.; Mukhopadhyay, P.; Subramanian, A. (2009). "The Case for Direct Cash Transfers to the Poor".
2621:"Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition: Evidence from State Reforms to India's Public Distribution System"
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Khera, Reetika (2008). "Access to the Targeted Public Distribution System: A Case Study in Rajasthan".
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Several schemes have augmented the number of people aided by PDS. Poor supervision of FPS and lack of
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Abraham, R.; Bennett, E. S.; Bhusal, R.; Dubey, S.; Li, Q.; Pattanayak, A.; Shah, N. B. (2018).
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Rahman, Andaleeb (2014). "Revival of Rural Public Distribution System: Expansion and Outreach".
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2169:"Entitlement Fetching or Snatching? Effects of Arbitrage on India's Public Distribution System"
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Khera, Reetika (2011). "Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations".
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Parikh, Kirit (1994). "Who Gets How Much from PDS: How Effectively Does It Reach the Poor?".
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George, P. S. (1996). "Public Distribution System, Food Subsidy, and Production Incentives".
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1667:"Food policy and politics: The political economy of the public distribution system in India"
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Khera, Reetika (2011). "Trends in Diversion of Grain from the Public Distribution System".
3178:"Did Modi Mislead Parliament on the Number of Fake Ration Cards that Aadhaar Had Exposed?"
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Growing instances of the consumers receiving inferior quality food grains in ration shops.
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Drèze, jean; Khera, Reetika. "Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System".
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2889:"Why People Are Protesting Against Jharkhand's Experiment With Direct Benefit Transfers"
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Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika (2013). "Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System".
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3151:"Aadhaar effect: Govt weeds out 2.33 cr bogus ration cards, saves Rs 10,000 crore"
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3118:"Aadhaar seeding responsible for only 4% of the cancelled ration cards in Odisha"
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2196:"Casting the Net: India's Public Distribution System after the Food Security Act"
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Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika (2010). "The BPL Census and a Possible Alternative".
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Nawani, NP (1994). "Indian experience on household food and nutrition security".
1631:
George, PS (1984). "Some Aspects of Public Distribution of Foodgrains in India".
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2011:
Himanshu; Sen, Abhijit (2013). "In-kind food transfers - I: Impact on Poverty".
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Swaminathan, M. (2008). "Programmes to Protect the Hungry: Lessons from India".
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The Civil Supplies Corporation should open more fair price shops in rural areas.
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750 billion. Food is procured from the net food surplus states, mainly from the
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Kaul, T. (2018). "Household Responses to Food Subsidies: Evidence from India".
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2486:"Is the PDS already a cash transfer? Rethinking India's food subsidy policies"
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Kaul, T (2018). "Household Responses to Food Subsidies: Evidence from India".
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3404:"Excluded from Public Distribution System: Enrolment issues in the last mile"
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Dev, M.; Suryanarayana, M. H. (1991). "Is PDS Urban Biased and Pro Rich?".
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Excess Food Stocks, PDS and Procurement Policy Working Paper No. 5/2002-PC
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3386:"Public Distribution System: Evidence from Secondary Data and the Field*"
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Jha, S (1992). "Consumer Subsidies in India: Is Targeting Effective?".
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3636:"Delhi HC says Fair price shop can't be allotted to BPL card holders"
2367:"Food and Social Security at the Margins: The Parhaiyas of Jharkhand"
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Drèze, Jean; Gupta, Prankur; Khera, Reetika; Pimenta, Isabel (2019).
2963:"Length of the Last Mile: Delays and Hurdles in NREGA Wage Payments"
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Drèze, Jean; Khalid, Nazar; Khera, Reetika; Somanchi, Anmol (2017).
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3286:"Aadhaar Authentication for Govt Services Fails 12% of Time: UIDAI"
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Khera, Reetika (2017). "Impact of Aadhaar on Welfare Programmes".
3074:"Envisioning a role for Aadhaar in the Public Distribution System"
1603:"Trends in Diversion of Grain from the Public Distribution System"
3252:"Aadhaar-based biometric authentication—Dark clouds over the PDS"
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Muralidharan, Karthik; Neihaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip (2022).
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Personnel-in-charge of the department should be chosen locally.
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3524:"National Common Minimum Programme of the Government of India"
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Giri, A; Rautela, R.; Singh, V.P.; Sampath, S. (August 2019).
2225:"India's National Food Security Act (NFSA): Early Experiences"
2051:"Leakage and Corruption in India's Public Distribution System"
1462:, the main source of leakages from the PDS was the opaque APL
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Gadenne, L.; Norris, S.; Singhal, M.; Sukhtankar, S. (2017).
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2310:"Aadhaar and Food Security in Jharkhand: Pain without Gain?"
2792:"Opinion | Transforming the Fight Against Poverty in India"
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
3747:"Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System"
3048:"Ten Facts That Set the Record Straight on Cash Transfers"
2073:"Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System"
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Estimated population share (%) in 2020 in possession of a:
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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
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Swaminathan, M; Misra, N (2001). "Errors of Targeting".
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has ruled that fair price shops cannot be allotted to a
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George, Siddharth; Subramanian, Arvind (22 July 2015).
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Mungikar, Meghana; Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika (2020).
3489:(2). Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad: 27–33.
3083:. New Delhi: Planning Commission, Government of India.
2988:"Cash vs. in-kind transfers: Indian data meets theory"
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Muralidharan, K.; Niehuas, P.; Sukhtankar, S. (2017).
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Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika; Somanchi, Anmol (2020).
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Narayanan, R; Dhorajiwala, S.; Kambhatla, S. (2020).
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Krishnamurthy, P.; Pathania, V.; Tandon, S. (2017).
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has the largest stock of grain in the world besides
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Planning Commission 9th FYP on FPS and malpractices
2251:"Government puts household spending report on hold"
1813:Department of Food and Public Distribution (2016).
1304:Rogue dealers swap good supplies received from the
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3446:"Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System"
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3204:"Balancing corruption and exclusion: A rejoinder"
3072:Unique Identification Authority of India (2016).
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2766:"Universal basic income: The best way to welfare"
1513:How Punjab and Haryana may de-risk Indian economy
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1526:"5.17 The Public Distribution System is -------"
1179:Food surplus states are the provider of India's
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901:Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)
3745:Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika (7 December 2023).
3703:Drèze, Jean; Khera, Reetika (7 December 2023).
3460:"Government in a fix over illegal ration cards"
2970:Azim Premji University and LibTech India Report
2525:"How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition"
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3790:Public Distribution System (PDS), in 10th Plan
2167:Chakrabarti, S.; Kishore, A.; Roy, D. (2016).
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2352:NBER Working Paper 26744 (Revised Nov 2022)
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1965:Deaton, Angus; Drèze, Jean (25 July 2014).
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2249:Correspondent Special (15 November 2019).
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2845:"Price Distortions in Indian Agriculture"
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166:to distribute food and non-food items to
120:Learn how and when to remove this message
4471:Social impact of Indian television drama
3801:Public Distribution System: Introduction
3611:"Allow alternatives to PDS, say experts"
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2709:Economic Development and Cultural Change
2625:Economic Development and Cultural Change
2559:Economic Development and Cultural Change
2421:Khera, Reetika; Somanchi, Anmol (2020).
2364:
2134:Economic Development and Cultural Change
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1263:: vague phrasing that often accompanies
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1096:{\displaystyle (P_{OM}-P_{PDS})*Q_{PDS}}
963:denote the open-market price of grains,
309:2013-current: National Food Security Act
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1562:"Number of Ration Shops in the Country"
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69:"Public Distribution System" India
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3734:https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24477758
3555:Swaminathan, Madhura (3 August 2004).
3237:IDinsight & Omidyar Network Report
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2099:Indian Journal of Human Development
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194:, procures and maintains the PDS.
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3685:Truth vs Hype: The Hunger Project
3230:"State of Aadhaar Report 2017-18"
2423:"A review of coverage of the PDS"
1535:(2000-2001). 2000. Archived from
1363:either because they are seasonal
321:
315:National Food Security Act (NFSA)
295:
3579:"Food Stamps: A Model for India"
3250:Drèze, Jean (9 September 2016).
3176:Bhatnagar, Gaurav Vivek (2017).
2606:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2003.08.015
2484:Balasubramanian, Sujata (2015).
1492:National Food Security Act, 2013
1460:National Food Security Act, 2013
1354:National Food Security Act, 2013
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923:Evidence on effectiveness of PDS
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2490:Journal of Development Studies
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3709:Economic and Political Weekly
3390:talkative-shambhu.blogspot.in
3099:Economic and Political Weekly
3007:10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.03.009
2843:Saini, S; Gulati, A. (2017).
2826:Economic and Political Weekly
2676:10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.07.003
2467:Economic and Political Weekly
2371:Economic and Political Weekly
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2080:Economic and Political Weekly
2032:Economic and Political Weekly
2013:Economic and Political Weekly
1989:Economic and Political Weekly
1967:"Squaring the poverty circle"
1933:Economic and Political Weekly
1911:Economic and Political Weekly
1892:Economic and Political Weekly
1873:Economic and Political Weekly
1854:Economic and Political Weekly
1830:Economic and Political Weekly
1748:. New Delhi: Left Word Books.
1744:Swaminathan, Madhura (2000).
1727:Economic and Political Weekly
1708:Economic and Political Weekly
1633:Economic and Political Weekly
996:the PDS price of grains, and
910:Center state responsibilities
3795:Planning Commission of India
3311:"Public Distribution System"
2502:10.1080/00220388.2014.997221
2176:IFPRI Discussion Paper 01588
1458:Before the enactment of the
1211:the food security of India.
1199:are the biggest provider of
255:1950-1997: Gradual expansion
192:government-owned corporation
7:
4059:Water supply and sanitation
2922:Microsave Consulting Report
1618:Food Security in South Asia
1465:
1410:United Progressive Alliance
1325:with Direct Cash Transfers.
1314:Many FPS dealers resort to
27:Indian food security system
10:
4616:
3946:Public distribution system
3829:Operation Black by Aaj Tak
3664:. AAJ TAK. 14 October 2013
3495:10.1177/014473940002000203
3357:"Press Information Bureau"
2937:"State stops DBT in Nagri"
2764:Banerjee, Abhijit (2016).
2232:LANSA Working Paper Series
1671:Journal of Peasant Studies
1450:Government of Chhattisgarh
1415:However, finance minister
1275:Such statements should be
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376:NFSA (PHH/AAY) ration card
148:Public Distribution System
18:Public distribution system
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3821:Delhi FoodBanking Network
3815:28 September 2019 at the
3022:"Price risk and poverty?"
2049:Overbeck, Daniel (2016).
1683:10.1080/03066159808438667
1306:Food Corporation of India
499:Dadra & Nagar Haveli
367:
357:
352:
340:Latest coverage estimates
188:Food Corporation of India
182:and essential fuels like
3477:Chakraborty, M. (2000).
2594:European Economic Review
2365:Somanchi, Anmol (2023).
2111:10.1177/0973703020100106
1497:
381:State scheme ration card
205:, the government spends
4600:Food and drink in India
3929:National Pension System
2986:Khera, Reetika (2014).
1477:Direct Benefit Transfer
1022:{\displaystyle Q_{PDS}}
989:{\displaystyle P_{PDS}}
269:1997-2013: Targeted PDS
4267:Caste-related violence
3983:Universal basic income
3883:Social issues in India
3805:Right to Food Campaign
3642:. news.biharprabha.com
3557:"Targeted food stamps"
2941:www.telegraphindia.com
1761:Development and Change
1616:Bhatia, B. M. (1985).
1434:Corruption and reforms
1116:PDS vs. cash transfers
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327:Implementation of NFSA
227:below the poverty line
143:
4466:Freedom of expression
2935:Mukesh, ASRP (2018).
2887:Sen, Jahnavi (2018).
2223:Puri, Raghav (2017).
1815:Annual Report 2015-16
1487:Malnutrition in India
1215:Fair price shop (FPS)
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1024:
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278:Issues with targeting
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4315:Separatist movements
1422:In a 2014 judgment,
1277:clarified or removed
1107:Nutritional outcomes
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1000:
967:
937:
583:Jammu & Kashmir
363:mandated by NFSA (%)
287:Large-scale leakages
250:Evolution of the PDS
54:improve this article
4353:Illegal immigration
3998:Widening income gap
3466:. 30 December 2012.
3321:on 17 December 2010
3157:. 17 September 2016
3046:Narayan, S (2015).
2658:Rahman, A. (2016).
1588:on 4 November 2012.
1542:on 24 December 2010
1229:Government of India
1191:-farmers dominated
1175:Food surplus states
359:Population coverage
349:
160:Government of India
4305:Religious violence
4166:Female infanticide
4151:Child prostitution
3968:Standard of living
3810:Food Banking India
3615:The Indian Express
3567:on 17 August 2004.
3448:. 8 November 2013.
3420:. 8 February 2019.
3122:The Economic Times
2796:The New York Times
2288:has generic name (
1952:DESA Working Paper
1665:Mooji, J. (2018).
1581:The Times of India
1482:Subsidies in India
1428:below poverty line
1205:Haryana and Punjab
1093:
1019:
986:
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429:Arunachal Pradesh
348:
235:public expenditure
144:
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4343:Human trafficking
4156:Child trafficking
4085:Domestic violence
4054:Natural disasters
4049:Manual scavenging
3909:Farmers' suicides
3591:on 9 October 2006
3434:. 19 August 2015.
3418:"Casting the Net"
3392:. September 2011.
3342:(archived at the
2874:Monitoring Report
2532:World Development
1746:Weakening Welfare
1294:
1293:
1183:. Most states in
928:Poverty reduction
897:
890:
889:
569:Himachal Pradesh
197:As of June 2022,
130:
129:
122:
104:
16:(Redirected from
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4580:Welfare in India
4570:Poverty in India
4549:Police brutality
4338:Groom kidnapping
4300:Ethnic relations
4161:Female foeticide
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184:kerosene
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