Question:
Describe the achievements of Public Distribution System (PDS).
Answer:
① The PDS has proved to be the most effective instrument of government policy in stabilising prices and making food available to poor consumers at affordable prices.
② It played a significant role in avoiding widespread hunger and famine by supplying food from the surplus areas to the deficit areas.
③ Generally, prices have been revised in favour of poor families.
④ The Public Distribution System including the minimum support price and procurement has contributed to an increase in foodgrain production and provided income security to farmers.
Food Security in India
Q 1.
Name the year when a devastating famine occurred in India.
Q 2.
Why is agriculture a seasonal activity?
Q 3.
What is food security? What conditions should be fulfilled to ensure food security in a country like India?
Q 5.
A section of people in India are still without food. Explain?
Q 6.
List the three A's Food security implies to?
Q 7.
What is buffer stock?
Q 9.
Which states are more food insecure in India?
Q 10.
What are the dimensions of food security?
Q 11.
List the kinds of ration cards available?
Q 12.
Write a note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and related items.
Q 13.
Why is food security essential?
Q 14.
Why is a buffer stock created by the government?
Q 15.
What is Minimum Support Price?
Q 16.
What are the benefits from PDS?
Q 17.
How is food security ensured in India?
Q 18.
What is Public Distribution System (PDS)?
Q 19.
Which two special schemes related to food security were launched in 2000? What were the objective of these schemes?
Q 20.
What is Chronic hunger?
Q 21.
Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?
Q 22.
Describe any three categories of people who are prone to food insecurity.
Q 23.
Define Green Revolution.
Q 24.
Do you believe that green revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains? How?
Q 25.
Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
Q 26.
Define malnutrition.
Q 27.
What are the functions of food corporation of India?
Q 28.
How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?
Q 29.
Name any six co-operative societies of the country.
Q 30.
What happens to the supply of food when there is a disaster or a calamity?
Q 31.
Describe the achievements of Public Distribution System (PDS).
Q 32.
What changes have been noticed in the Public Distribution System recently?
Q 33.
How is food security affected during a calamity?
Q 34.
What is seasonal hunger?
Q 35.
Write notes on:Minimum Support Price, Buffer Stock, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.
Q 36.
What has our government done to provide food security to the poor? Discuss any two schemes launched by the government?
