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Public Distribution System In India

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Public Distribution System (PDS) is one of the instruments to ensure adequate supply of food grains and other essential commodities at reasonable rates to the people throughout the country. PDS is one of the oldest and most effective poverty alleviation programme and contributes towards the social welfare of the people.PDS is primarily a social welfare and antipoverty programme of the Government of India. Essential commodities like rice, wheat, sugar, kerosene, and the like are supplied to the people under the PDS at subsidized prices. It has been one of the most important elements in India‟s safety net system for almost 50-years and also the most far reaching in terms of coverage as well as public expenditure on subsidies. PDS provides rationed …show more content…

The success of this huge network is dependent on its ability to translate a macro level self-sufficiency to a micro level, by ensuring availability of food grains for poor households. The Public Distribution System is considered as the principal instrument in the hands of government for providing a safety net to the poor and the downtrodden. The system serves triple objectives namely protecting poor, enhancing the nutritional status and generating a moderate influence on market price. (https://en.wikipedia.org)

Definition of Public Distribution System

It is difficult to define Public Distribution System as a general concept because of the contextual and situation specific nature of this concept. However one broad definition that can be considered for the present study is as follows.' Public Distribution System is the whole or a part of the distribution system, in principle owned and controlled by the public authorities on behalf of the general public and run by them for the good of the general public or of a specific group thereof'. Generally speaking, Public Distribution System operates as a complementary system to the private trade which exists side by …show more content…

The first one was the Bengal famine of 1770. An estimated 10 million people died in this famine that was essentially the consequence of plunder by the colonists of the east India Company. Between 1860 and 1910, there occurred two entry major famines and scarcities. The last famine in British India was the Bengal famines of 1943.

Post-independence Indian agriculture followed the Bengal famine of 1943 and food scarcity during the Second World War Public intervention in Indian agriculture was, in fact, connected with food scarcity. By 1947, about 54 million people in urban areas were covered by statutory rationing and another 19 million by other forms of public distribution. The measures that the GOI adopts for intervention in the food grains market are through procurement, buffer

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