THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (SPECIAL REFERENCE OF THE CHHATTISGARH )

Authors

  • Dr. Tapesh Chandra Gupta , Smt. Sarika Kumari Dewangan Prof. of Commerce Department Govt. Chhattisgarh college Raipur C.G.

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Abstract

Rising food prices so that it is going very difficult for poor people to survive their life, that's why more attention given by the government to the public and policy. As we know that food safety is a big matter for everyone because production of food grains not sufficient for all the people. Chhattisgarh government is fully aware about the food security so that they started to manage food grain and give food grain to every household who has card. Chhattisgarh Government started many programme like – core PDS –meri merge yojana, E-kerosene yojana, call centre , rice festival, PDS online  programme etc.                       Approx 91% people would benefit from this law. Chhattisgarh food security bill is not only for food security but also for balanced food with maximum protein. State government faced many problem like leakages, lake of transparency, awareness, so that government has taken it very seriously and decided to computerization of records for success of this decision government has taken action and started many programs Supreme court gave an order to other state government  to follow the online public distribution system of Chhattisgarh government has sanctioned 17500 thousand for iodized salt ,450000 thousands for shaker distribution yogana .,4200900  thousand for gram distribution yogana , 420090 thousand  for grain distribution and 10thousand for Development of PDS. The Chhattisgarh government is first state who passed own security bill,2012. And the divided the family in the four groups – 1 Antyodaya households 2 Priority households 3 General households 4 Excluded households. So it is very easy to identify the family. 

References

www.cg.nic.in/khadya

PDS articles in the Times of India and Hindu between 1998 to 2011.

Chhattisgarh Government, Food and civil supply department, Yearly Administration Report.

Economic Survey of Chhattisgarh 2014-15.

Chhattisgarh monthly Patrika Vikash Parkh for month of August 2015.

Chhattisgarh –passes-own-food – security bill

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Published

2015-11-30