Question

some functions of PDS

Answer 1

1. Provides storage facilities for food grains.
2.free distribution of grains through fair price shops
3. Subsidized and non-food items distributed to poors living in rural and urban areas.
4. Maintenance of buffer stock.

Answer 2

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(i) It is the most effective government policy in stabilising prices and making food available to consumers at affordable prices.

(ii) It helps in averting widespread hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus regions of the country to the deficit areas.

(iii) The prices have been under revision in favour of poor households in general.

(iv) Minimum Support Price announcement has increased the food production and provided income security to farmers.