what are the drawbacks of PDS

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Sushrita Das answered this

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Anand answered this

Drawbacks Of PDS are as follows :-

1) PDS go-downs are overflowing with foodgrains, with some becoming rotte and some are eaten by rats

2) The no. of widespead hunger and famine became increasing due wastage of large no. of foodgrains

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Viraj Raj answered this

The drawbacks of PDS system are ;-

Most probably the government is putting more stress in producing what and rice due to which .farmers grow only wheat and rice in their fields.Due to which the amount of wheat and rice is increasing very fastly(about 63 million tones while maximum capacity of buffer stock is 24.3 million tones) . This causesa lot of problems of storage and transportation

Also the PDS is working for many years then also it is unable to remove hunger from india

Even due to advent of various programs different kinds of malpractices were still prevailing in the society .Like distribution of grains of lower quality at higher rates at fair price shops by th shop owners and selling the good quality grains at higher rates to gain profit at nearby market shops.

Ishan Goyal answered this

The following are the disadvantages of the public distribution system;

Instances of hunger occur despite granaries being full. This points to certain lacunae or inefficiency in the system.
High level of buffer stocks often leads to wastage of foodgrains and deterioration in quality.
The storage of foodgrains inculcates high carrying costs on the government.
The provision of minimum support price has encouraged farmers to divert land from production of coarse grains that are consumed by poor, to rice and wheat