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SYNOPSYS ON PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS)

As we all know India is an agriculture based economy with around 26% of its

population below poverty line (BPL). Many of these people are forced to sleep

with hungry stomach due to their inadequate sources of income. The Public

Distribution System (PDS) in the country facilitates the supply of food grains to

the poor at a subsidized price . PDS is an important constituent of the strategy for

poverty eradication and is intended to serve as a safety net for the poor whose

number is more than 33 Crores and are nutritionally at risk. PDS is operated under

the joint responsibility of the Central and the State Governments. The Central

Government has taken the responsibility for procurement, storage, transportation

and bulk allocation of food grains, etc. The operational details of the PDS differ

from state to state. Though the policy of setting up of FPSs(Fair Price Shops) owesits initiation to national food policy, its implementation remains the direct

responsibility of the state governments. In order to operate the PDS effectively, the

Central Government issues guidelines from time to time to the states regarding the

operational details of the PDS. The operational responsibilities including allocation

within the State identification of families below poverty line, issue of ration cards,

supervision and Monitoring the functioning of FPSs rest with the State

Governments. The Food and Civil Supplies Department of the State Government is

mainly entrusted with the task of monitoring PDS in the state. Under PDS scheme,

each family below the poverty line is eligible for 35 kg of rice or wheat everymonth, while a household above the poverty line is entitled to 15 kg of food grain

on a monthly basis Every year central government provides subsidy to meet the

monetary differences between market price and FPSs price. In addition, the Central

Government also procures food grains for meeting the requirements of buffer

stock. However, doubts have been raised about the efficiency and cost-

effectiveness of the PDS, especially in the light of the growing food subsidy and

food stocks. Planning Commission of India says For every Rs 4 spent on the

PDS, only Rs 1 reaches the poor and 57% of the PDS food grain does not reach

the intended people .

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My study will be focused basically on identifying what are the major loopholes and

what are the reasons behind those loopholes, and methodology to rectify those

loopholes so that system can work efficiently and all required ones can be

benefitted by it . Proper system study needs to be done for identification af all the

requirements of system. A proper system should be made by which we can make

the grains and other items like sugar and kerosene be easily available to required

one and stopping hoarding ,black marketing ,adulteration ,system transparency

and accountability issues. We can utilize proper technology to avoid problems like

use of BOGUS cards and SHADOW cards to make system more efficient,

mechanism should be placed to positively confirm and track the individual

beneficiary off take on a monthly basis, the problems relating to PDS leakages,

Transparency and Transportation would get resolved. A genuine data base of

beneficiaries should be created and issue all the families Unique ID. Data baseshould contain ten finger biometrics and photographs of all family members to

avoid all short of duplicities. For all this there will be required a software linking

all the FPSs, FCI offices, whole sale points and data base. I will be looking to

design basically what are the basic requirements of system and taking past into

consideration what were the reasons for failure of system .