Food Security through Public Distribution System

This book utilises empirical data to ascertain the promise and performance of public distribution system and food security to the poor people. It throws new vistas associated to analyse the evaluation of public distribution system in general and the study area in particular. Empirical evidence is evinced in the present book to explore the various ramifications of public distribution system to the food security of the poor. In spite of the bottlenecks at different levels of the functioning of PDS, in view of its crucial role in enhancing the welfare of the downtrodden among the different sections of the population, the PDS needs a much more efficient way of functioning to provide qualitative items. The chi-square analysis that had been taken up in the book in order to substantiate the various facets saddled with the functioning of PDS.