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Q.

Which of the following is correct about the Public Distribution System (PDS)?

  1. It is an Indian food Security System established under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution.
  2. It helps in ensuring the Food and Nutritional Security of the nation.
  3. It maintains the buffer stock of food grains in the warehouse.

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a

1,2and 3

b

1and 2

c

2and 3

d

1 and 3

answer is D.

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Detailed Solution

  • Public distribution of essential material  was in existence in India during the interwar time.
  • PDS, with its center on the distribution of food grains in urban scarcity places, had proceed from the critical food shortages of the 1960s.
  • The national agricultural production had grown in the after effects of the Green Revolution, the outreach of PDS was expanded to tribal blocks and areas of high incidence of poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.


 

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Which of the following is correct about the Public Distribution System (PDS)?It is an Indian food Security System established under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution.It helps in ensuring the Food and Nutritional Security of the nation.It maintains the buffer stock of food grains in the warehouse.