What are some of the important features of the PDS?
Answer:
- It is the most effective government policy in stabilising prices and making food available to consumers at affordable prices.
- It helps in averting widespread hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus regions of the country to the deficit areas.
- The prices have been under revision in favour of poor households in general.
- Minimum Support Price announcement has increased the food production and provided income security to farmers.