Universal PDS: Efficiency and Equity Dimensions

Sowmya Dhanraj () and Smit Gade ()

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Abstract: India being home to the largest number of poor and malnourished population in the world, the tabling of National Food Security Bill has renewed the public pressure for universalization of PDS in India. In this regard, Tamil Nadu?s model of universal PDS has been cited for its success in providing comprehensive food security. A survey conducted in Coimbatore-Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu to assess the merits and demerits of universal system. The survey covering 154 households seeks to understand the utilization of the PDS by the poor and the non-poor households, if there is voluntary exclusion of better-off sections of the population from the system and the reasons behind them. It is found that there is low drop-out of non-poor households from the universal system. [Working Paper No. 148/2016].

Keywords: Universal PDS; resource use efficiency; redistribution; non-poor households; universal system; utilization; population; drop-out; food security; Coimbatore-Tiruppur region; survey; voluntary exclusion; better-off sections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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