Explain the factors responsible for the decreasing of PDS in recent years.
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PDS has proved to be the most effective instrument of government policy towards ensuring food security. But in recent year the role of PDS has declined.
Factor that led to decline of PDS are
(i) Earlier PDS was universal, but over the years various government policies have made it more targeted with focus on special target groups.
(iii) The marked inefficiency of PDS has led poor to depend on markets rather than the ration shops, for their food needs.
(iv) Mai practices by PDS dealers by diverting the grains to open market to get better margins and selling poor qu
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