describe the importance of public distribution system in india
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Public Distribution System in India :-
Public distribution system is a food security system in our country. This was established by the Government of India under Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food, and Public Distribution and it is managed jointly by the State Governments in India. It distributes subsidized food and non-food items to India's poor living in rural and urban areas. Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar and kerosene, through a network of fair priced shop (also known as ration shops) established in several states spread across the country. Food Corporation of India, a Government owned corporation, procures and maintains the Public Distribution System.
Importance of Public Distribution System :-
1) Public distribution system has helped in stabilizing prices of the food grain and making food available to poor people at affordable prices.
2) Helped to ensure that the poor section of society also have the access to the food.
3) It maintains the buffer stock of food grains in the warehouse so that the flow of food remain active even during the period of less agricultural food production.
4) The Public Distribution System also keeps an eye on the hoarders and black marketers who try for windfall gain at the cost of poor people and other consumers.
Public distribution system is a food security system in our country. This was established by the Government of India under Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food, and Public Distribution and it is managed jointly by the State Governments in India. It distributes subsidized food and non-food items to India's poor living in rural and urban areas. Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar and kerosene, through a network of fair priced shop (also known as ration shops) established in several states spread across the country. Food Corporation of India, a Government owned corporation, procures and maintains the Public Distribution System.
Importance of Public Distribution System :-
1) Public distribution system has helped in stabilizing prices of the food grain and making food available to poor people at affordable prices.
2) Helped to ensure that the poor section of society also have the access to the food.
3) It maintains the buffer stock of food grains in the warehouse so that the flow of food remain active even during the period of less agricultural food production.
4) The Public Distribution System also keeps an eye on the hoarders and black marketers who try for windfall gain at the cost of poor people and other consumers.
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Government intervention in food distribution was seen for the first time in 1940, during World War II, just before the Bengal Famine of 1943. But, PDS was formally launched in 1947 to provide succour to the hungry, needy and downtrodden. Several changes and interventions have been made to the Public Distribution Scheme by succeeding Governments, more so after food sufficiency was attained by the country in the decades of the sixties and seventies. It is a food security system providing rice, wheat, sugar and kerosene through Government monitored fair price shops. PDS is controlled by the Central and State Governments.
Even though a lot of grievances have been expressed by the beneficiaries regarding insufficient quantities being distributed and the quality of the items being supplied, the PDS in India has helped in an immense way to keep hunger at bay by interrupted supplies at Government controlled low prices.
Even though a lot of grievances have been expressed by the beneficiaries regarding insufficient quantities being distributed and the quality of the items being supplied, the PDS in India has helped in an immense way to keep hunger at bay by interrupted supplies at Government controlled low prices.
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