Public Distribution System

The Public Distribution System (PDS) evolved as a system of management of scarcity through the distribution of food grains at affordable prices. 

India aims to cut spending on food and fertilizer subsidies to ₹3.7 trillion in the fiscal year from April, a 26% cut from this year, two government officials said, to rein in a fiscal deficit that ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food and fertilizer subsidies alone account for about one-eighth …