What is ailing India’s PDS?: CURRENT AFFAIRS REVIEW: National Interest

Описание: The Public Distribution System, abbreviated as PDS, is an Indian food security scheme instituted by the Government of India to procure and distribute food and non-food basic essentials to the poorest strata at heavily subsidised rates. Some of the major items distributed under the scheme are wheat, rice, sugar, Kerosene, etc., through a pan-India network of Fair price shops (Ration depot). Food Corporation of India (FCI) is the nodal agency to undertake PDS.Despite feeding millions of Indians and evading famines successfully for over decades, it is riddled with scores of drawbacks for which it is regularly in the news.

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