Public Distribution System in Rural India: Implications for Food Safety and Consumer Protection

Kumar, Basanta; Mohanty, Brajraj

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.116

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“…3.5a Lack of eligibility checking: Researchers and policy makers have studied distribution of food grains extensively over the years [1,7,[30][31][32][33]. Planning Commission of India [33] found that only 42 per cent of the subsidized grains reach the targeted people.…”

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“…Planning Commission of India [33] found that only 42 per cent of the subsidized grains reach the targeted people. Significant inefficiency lies in identifying targeted people due to biased practices [31,33]. As a result, the process of identification of the targeted people is plagued with errors of inclusion (of non-poor) and exclusion (of poor).…”

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India’s national food security programme: a strategic insight

Mahapatra

Mahanty

2018

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Indian National Food Security Programme, with a goal to provide highly subsidized food grains to more than 800 million people in every nook and corner of the vast country, faces strategic challenges related to production, procurement, storage, transportation, distribution, finance, and organization. While the production issues are related to low yield, small farm size, and lack of financial support, the procurement process is skewed and lacks integration with the markets. The storage facilities are inadequate and are non-optimally located. Transportation facilities lack coordination leading to multiple loading and unloading of the food grains. Leakage and improper distribution of food grains are also big challenges. Very high subsidy, inefficient processes, and a large work force have brought to the fore the question of financial viability of the programme. There are also organizational issues related to payment disparity and resistance to labor reforms. The paper has also given a framework for efficient implementation of the programme using cloud system with effective procurement and stock management policy measures.

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Section: Distributionmentioning

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Section: Distributionmentioning

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India’s national food security programme: a strategic insight

Mahapatra

Mahanty

2018

Sādhanā

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“…Poor transportation system, lack of storage facilities etc are said to be the main reasons why food distribution in India is so poor. Kumar and Mohanty (2012) found that the failure of the PDS has been primarily due to corruption and the important reasons attributed to this are appointment of dealers on political lines and no provision of margin to the dealers. Dutta and Ramaswami (2001) stated that, utilisation of the PDS is an outcome of household decision which in turn can be thought as a function of characteristics relating to the household (e.g.…”

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Impact assessment of supply chain constraints over performance of public distribution system

Bhagwat¹,

Raut²

2018

IJICBM

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Public distribution system (PDS) provides subsidised food grains through a network of fair price shops (FPS) to ensure food security for the poor people. PDS fraught is with many difficulties due to several constraints. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was applied to test the causal relationships between constraints and performance. A survey containing Likert-scale questions was conducted to collect data from 400 household who had been purchasing food grain from the PDS. Six constructs were identified in the study namely targeting error, information asymmetry, delivery mechanism, customer satisfaction, cost and performance. Results indicated that the existence of a statistically significant relationship among constructs. These findings suggest that the performance can be improved if some corrective measures are taken, i.e., to reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction in order to the realisation of the objective of ensuring food security for the poor.

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