Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … population. But the existing PDS system has been highly "leaky", with large amounts of grains (40 to 50 percent) being pilfered … and diverted to open market. Also, the existing PDS delivers better in better-off states rather than in those where there …