A Study on Status of Public Distribution System in Tamil Nadu

ABSTRACT

Public distribution system has been an important welfare programme of government aimed to ensure food security in India ever since independence. PDS had been striving hard to provide subsidized essential commodities to the poor and needy of the country. Tamil Nadu has been implementing universal public distribution system to ensure food security for all its citizens. This paper tries to analyze the present status of Public Distribution System in Tamil Nadu. PDS had been under the wrath for many decades for the level of corruption, bogus purchases and leakage the system has. Reformation of the system was the need of the time. This paper also tries to evaluate the recent reforms introduced by the government of Tamil Nadu to make the functioning of PDS efficient.