Solution:
The above statement is true.People's health and nutritional status are reliant on affordable access to food grains. Therefore, since more people will utilise the PDS system's amenities, the people of Kerala will benefit. For example, in Tamil Nadu, 90 per cent of the people living in rural areas use ration shops, whereas, in West Bengal, only 35 per cent of rural people do so. Here in Tamil Nadu, people would be better off.