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‘More than 100mn excluded from PDS as govt uses outdated Census 2011 data’
-India Spend Team
The public distribution system (PDS) is meant to play a key role in disbursing government support to the poorest Indians during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. However, the system leaves more than 100 million people excluded from its reach, as per academics Jean Drèze, Reetika Khera and Meghana Mungikar, because the central government uses 2011 population figures from the last census to calculate state-wise PDS coverage.
Under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the PDS is supposed to cover 75% of the population in rural areas and 50% in urban areas, which comes to 67% of the total population. The corresponding state-wise ratios were worked out using National Sample Survey data, in such a manner that poorer states got higher coverage (for example, close to 90% in Jharkhand) and richer states (say, Punjab and Kerala) got lower coverage.
