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What is meant by Buffer stock?
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3
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32874
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October 5, 2020
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Who are food insecured in India? What is their social composition?
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0
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4356
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March 13, 2018
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What are some of the important features of the PDS?
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0
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7500
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March 13, 2018
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What is the ‘rationing system’?
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0
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5707
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March 13, 2018
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What is the Public Distribution System?
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0
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7357
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March 13, 2018
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What is ‘buffer stock’? Why was it created by the government?
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0
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4090
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March 13, 2018
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How did India aim at self-sufficiency in food grains after independence?
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0
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7770
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March 13, 2018
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How does social inability to buy food also play a role in food insecurity?
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0
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8465
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March 13, 2018
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What buffer norms are to be followed by the government?
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0
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2565
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March 13, 2018
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Why were the FCI granaries overflowing with foodgrains and how was the situation controlled?
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0
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1995
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March 13, 2018
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What are the three important Food Intervention Programmes?
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0
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7341
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March 13, 2018
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What does ‘Seasonal Hunger’ mean?
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0
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3020
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March 13, 2018
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How is food security ensured in a country?
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0
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3255
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March 13, 2018
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What do you know about Antyodaya Anna Yojana?
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0
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1361
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March 13, 2018
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Why is the Public Distribution System criticised?
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0
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6693
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March 13, 2018
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Cite evidences which explain that India is self-sufficient in foodgrain production
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0
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2449
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March 13, 2018
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How are food insecured people disproportionately large in some regions of the country?
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0
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1233
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March 13, 2018
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What is a ‘famine’? Which states in India are affected by famines?
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0
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2896
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March 13, 2018
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How is food security affected during a calamity?
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0
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9217
|
March 13, 2018
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Why do we need ‘food security’?
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0
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1032
|
March 13, 2018
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What are the dimensions of ‘food security’?
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0
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10265
|
March 13, 2018
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What does ‘food security’ mean? On what factors does food security of a country depend?
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0
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2570
|
March 13, 2018
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Due to a natural calamity, say drought, total production of food grains decreases. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas
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1
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1166
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December 10, 2016
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"The Government of India has initiated PDS to distribute food grains to the poor at subsidised rates."
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1
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833
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December 10, 2016
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Due to a natural calamity, say drought, total production of food grains decreases
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1
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818
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December 10, 2016
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After independence, Indian policy makers adopted many measures to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains
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1
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1193
|
December 10, 2016
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Explain this statement “There is a general consensus that high level of buffer stock of food grains is very undesirable and can be wasteful”
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1
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4055
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December 10, 2016
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"The PDS system has often been criticised with reference to several drawbacks"
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1
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1956
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December 10, 2016
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"The PDS has proved to be the most effective instrument of government policy.”
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1
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6620
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December 10, 2016
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How can ‘seed fertiliser water strategy be a good solution to food security problem in India?
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0
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2869
|
December 10, 2016
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