India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …

The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …

find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households. Expansions in India’s flagship in-kind food …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first …