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 … DBT may trigger, a cash transfer systems has become a potent tool in the government’s armoury of social welfare. As the …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … PDS beneficiaries. It also studies how tuned is the PDS welfare delivery system to the country’s poor. The paper finds … 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 …