per annum, which is the highest growth rate registered in agriculture by any major state of India over a ten year period … a lesson worth learning for many states of India who are struggling to get their agriculture moving. In this paper, we … contributed to robust agricultural growth in the state and discuss the lessons that can be drawn for many other states of India …

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

the beneficiaries. The ongoing policy discussions and strategies for executing DBT-food in India are observed to be …

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 …

alleviation -- Chapter 3: Inter-linkages between agriculture performance, poverty and malnutrition in India -- Chapter 4: Reviving …