Public Distribution System (PDS) is a poverty alleviation programme and contributes towards the social welfare of the people. Essential commodities like rice, wheat, sugar, kerosene are supplied to the people under the PDS at reasonable prices. As per the announcement of Govt of Tamil Nadu, from 01st June 2011 onwards the rice is supplied at free of cost. Rice is important and stable food for poor people and PDS is a back bone to the below poverty line family. This study analysis the impact of free rice in coastal region population in the state. In this study multi- stage random sampling was used to select different coastal districts. The results showed that only17.4 percent of poor families are utilizing and others are buying in open market and black markets. The system facing many problems in inside and outside the state.
Ahluwalia, D. (1993) Public Distribution of Food in India: Coverage, Targeting and Leakages, Food Policy 8(1): 33-54.
Balakrishnan, A., & Ramaswami, B. (1997). Quality of Public Distribution System: Why is Matters? 32(4) EPW Mumbai 189- 199.
Dutta, B., & Ramaswami, B. (2001). Targeting and Efficiency in the Public Distribution System, Case of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra 36 (18) EPW Mumbai 231-2590
Indrakant, S. (1992, 96, 2000) PDS in Andhra Pradesh with special reference to rice, Indian Journal of Economics 72 (286) 261-72.
Jean, D., & Reetika, K. (2013). Rural Poverty and the PDS Nov 16 EPW Mumbai 55-60.
Swaminathan, M. (1996).Food Security in India: A village view of the PDS in Maharashtra, Indian J of Agri, Eco, vol.51 (4) 683-696
Mahendran, A. (2013). A Study on customer satisfaction on food delivery mechanism of Universal PDS in Tamil Nadu (India) Int.J.Agri economics &extension, vol 1(8) 061-067.
Rakshit, M. (2003). Some Analytics of medium and long term food policy, May 3 EPW Mumbai 174-189
Outlook Business. (2009). More Holes that A Sieve: In its current form, the TPDS is a flawed system, http://Business.outlookind.com/article.aspx?262373,31st Oct 2009.
Rajagopalan, S. (2010).The Role of Targeted PDS and Food Stamps in promoting better access to food in Poor households M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Report, Chennai
Radhakrishna, R., Subba, R. K., Indrakant, S., and Ravi, C. (1997). The PDS be targeted to the very Poor- World bank Study, Washington DC
Kattumuri, R. (2011). Food Security and the Targeted PDS in India, ARC working Paper 38 LSE
Deb, S. (2009).PDS of Rice in Andhra Pradesh: Efficiency and Reform options. 44 (51) EPW Mumbai 70-77
Sen, A. (1981) ‘Poverty and Famines an Essay on Entitlements and deprivation’ Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Venugopal, K. R. (1992). Deliverance form Hunger, the PDS in India Sage Publication New Delhi.
In-Text Citation: (Mahendran & Indrakant, 2014)
To Cite this Article: Mahendran, A., & Indrakant, S. (2014). Public Distribution System in Tamil Nadu, India: Rice Supply Scheme of Prosperous, Problems and Policy. International Journal of Academic Research in Public Policy and Governace, 1(1), 17–29.
Copyright: © 2014 The Author(s)
Published by Knowledge Words Publications (www.kwpublications.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
