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Rationalising Public Distribution System in India

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  • Raya Das

    (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER))

  • Ranjana Roy
  • Ashok Gulati

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India runs perhaps the largest Public Distribution System (PDS) in the world, which provides free grains (rice and / or wheat) to almost 813.5 million people. But the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) of 2022-23 shows that almost 28 per cent of the grains supplied by Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reaches the intended beneficiaries. This amount to a financial loss of about Rs. 69,108 crores (equivalent to roughly 20 million metric tons (MMT) of rice and wheat). Such a leaky PDS needs urgent reforms for better outcomes. The resources thus saved can be ploughed back to agriculture and rural areas to achieve not just food security but also nutritional security.

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  • Raya Das & Ranjana Roy & Ashok Gulati, 2024. "Rationalising Public Distribution System in India," Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Policy Paper 28, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.
  • Handle: RePEc:bdc:ppaper:28
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    food security; Public Distribution System; National Food Security Act; DBT; Nutrition; PDS; icrier;
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