MERITS AND DEMERITS OF FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA? ❓❔
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First of all Food Security Bill (FSB) aims to provide subsidized food grain to around 67 percent of India's 1.2 billion people. beneficiaries ...
Merits : Food security in India is essential for the poor people. It is because more than one-fourth of population is living below the poverty line. Further, agriculture in India hugely depends on rainfall. In cases of failure of rainfall, many areas suffer from famines which results in the untimely deaths of many people because of starvation and epidemic diseases. Kalahandi and Kashipur in Odisha are places which have been suffering from famines since many years. Therefore, food security is required in the country.
Demerits : Limited benefit to the poor, regional disparities in PDS benefits, burden of food subsidy, urban bias, high operational cost, inefficient government machinery, regional disparities in PDS benefits, increase in prices, problem of larger buffer stocks are the drawbacks of food security system in India.