Which of these ensures the availability of essential commodities like wheat, rice, sugar, edible oils, and kerosene to the consumers through a network of outlets or fair price shops?

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Retail Market

Wholesale Market

Public Distribution System

Private Distribution System

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The Public Distribution System ensures the availability of essential commodities like wheat, rice, sugar, edible oils, and kerosene to the consumers through a network of outlets or fair-price shops. PDS refers to a system in which the food procured by the FCI is distributed through government-regulated ration shops among the poor section of society. The Public Distribution System helps reduce the food shortage among the country's poor people. The average consumption of Public Distribution System grain at the all-India level is 1 kg per person per month. It has evolved as a system of managing scarcity through distributing food grains at affordable prices.

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