Question

merits and demerits of PDS

Answer 1

Merits

1.PDS has proved to be the most effective instrument of government policy over the years in stabilising prices and making food available to consumers at affordable rate.

2. It has been instrumental in adverting widespread hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus regions to deficit onces

3. The prices have been under revision in favour of poor households

Demirts

1. Instances of hunger are prevalent despite overflowing granaries

2.FCI go-downs are over filling with grains with some rotting away and some being eaten by rats