11 Mar A case for a revamped, need-based PDS (GS-2 governance, GS-3 economics)
About: National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013
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- To provide for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantities of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.
- Coverage: 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population for receiving subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).
- Eligibility:
- Priority Households to be covered under TPDS, according to guidelines by the State government.
- Households covered under existing Antyodaya Anna Yojana.
- Women will be the household incharge.
- What to do next:
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- revisit NFSA norms and coverage
- “give-up” option for cardholder
- existing arrangement of flat rates should be replaced with a slab system
- end-to-end computerisation of operations
- digitisation of data of ration cardholders
- seeding of Aadhaar with TPDS
- automation of fair price shops to curb corruption
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