What are the criticisms faced by PDS in India?
1. PDS deals are found restoring to malpractices like selling the grains to the open market to get the better margins.
2. Sometimes they sell poor quality grains at ration shops.
3. They open their shops irregularly without considering the problems poor people.
4. Ration shops regularly have unsold stocks of poor quality grains left.
5. When ration shops are unable to sell, a massive stock of food grain piles up the Food Corporation of India.
6. FCI go-downs are over flowing with grains, with some rotting away and some being eaten by rats and insects.
7. There is a very little difference between the prices of goods sold at the ration shops and at the shops of market.
