Question

what are the causes of ineffectiveness of public distribution system?

Answer 1

The system of distribution of food procured by the FCI through government regulated ration shops among the poorer sections of the society is called Public Distribution System.
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.
(ii) The instances of prevalent hunger despite over flowing granaries shows the failure of PDS.
(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 quality grains at ration shops or by irregular opening of the shops etc.

Answer 2

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There are various reasons for the ineffectiveness of the public distribution system. They are as follows:

1. They are only located in few places and not at all places.

2. The owners of the PDS hoard the grains and cause black marketing.

3. The PDS also plays a mojor role in corruption. That is the respective owners sell their produce to others causing a shortage to the poor people.

4. Even though the implementation was successful the poverty and hunger of the poor people are not satisfied. Hence they are not effective.

These are some of the ineffective measures of PDS or public distribution system.

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