Evolution of PDS in India
The evolution of PDS in India is as follows:
- The PDS was introduced as a wartime distribution measure during World War II. Until the 1960s, distribution through PDS relied primarily on imports of grain.
- It was expanded in response to the food shortage in the 1960s. The government then established the Agricultural Price Commission and FCI to improve domestic procurement and storage of food grains for PDS.
- By the 1970s, PDS had become a universal scheme for the distribution of subsidized foods.
- Prior to 1992, the PDS was a general entitlement scheme for all consumers with no specific purpose.
- The Improved Community Distribution System (RPDS) was launched in June 1992 to strengthen and streamline the PDS and extend its reach to remote, hilly, remote, and inaccessible areas where a significant proportion of the underprivileged live life.
- In June 1997, the Government of India launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) for the poor. According to the TPDS, beneficiaries fall into two categories below the poverty line or BPL.
- Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY): AAY was a step towards creating a TPDS goal to reduce hunger among the poorest in the BPL. According to the national sample survey, about 5% of the total population sleeps without eating two meals a day. To make TPDS more focused and oriented to this population, Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) was launched in December 2000 for the poorest billion families.
- In September 2013, Congress passed the National Food Security Act. 2013 Law This law builds on the existing TPDS to deliver grain as a legal right to poor households. This represents a transition that turns the right to food into an enforceable right.
What is Public Distribution System?
The Public Distribution System (PDS) is India’s food security system, which has evolved into affordable food distribution and emergency management system. Distribute food and nonfood items that subsidize the poor in India. The project began in June 1947. Over the years, PDSs have become an important part of the country’s government food control policies. PDSs are complementary in nature and are not intended to satisfy the needs of any household or part of the community for the goods distributed accordingly. PDS has helped establish socio-economic equity by alleviating hunger, malnutrition, and anemia among the poorest of the poor, BPL citizens, women, and children. Using ICT to reduce contact points further increases the efficiency of PDS.
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