News and Articles
2013
- PDS items to be distributed in advance(The Times of India,16 June)
- Ration dealers end stir(The Hindu, 16 June)
- Chhattisgarh implements cheap food access(Sreelatha Menon, Business Standard, 15 June)
- FCI appeals State denizens on PDS awareness(e-pao.net, 15 June)
- Digitized public distribution system soon in Jharkhand(The Times of India,14 June)
- Higher import tariff is no sweetener(Tajinder Narang,Business Line,13 June)
- A grain of common sense(Sreenivasan Jain, Business Standard, 11 June)
- How to reduce our rotting mountains of grain(The Economic Times,9 June)
- How much will food security bill cost exchequer?(Sonal Verma,Moneycontrol.com,8 June)
- Sugar may gain as States need to buy for PDS(Business Line, 7 June)
2012
- Beating the PDS bureaucracy (The Hindu Business Line, 23 Dec)
- Starved of ideas: Expanding the leaky public distribution system won't deliver food security (Arvind Panagariya, The Times of India, 19 October 2012)
- Will food coupons work? (Devendra Sharma, Deccan Herald, June 2012)
- Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chattisgarh (Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47, Issue 5, 4 February 2012)
2011
- Will food coupons work? (Devendra Sharma, Deccan Herald, June 2012)
- Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chattisgarh (Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47, Issue 5, 4 February 2012)
- PDS in peril (R Ramakumar, Frontline, Volume 28, Issue 24, 19 November - 2 December 2011)
- Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46 Issue 44, 5 November 2011)
- Universal PDS, a distant dream (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Deccan Herald, 4 November 2011)
- Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS (Latha Jishnu, Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth, 15 September 2011)
- The PDS is not failing or ailing (Ria Singh Sawhney, The Tribune, 7 September 2011)
- A case for uniform and universal system (Swathi Meenakshi, The Tribune, 7 September 2011)
- The PDS in Rural Orissa: Against the Grain? (Ankita Aggarwal, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, No. 36, 3-9 September 2011)
- No substitute for PDS (Kuber Nag, The Hindu, 3 September 2011)
- The PDS learning curve (Jijo Jose, Down to Earth, 18 August 2011)
- A revived PDS is visible now (Himanshu, Livemint, 16 August 2011)
- Revamping PDS: a tale of two States (Mahim Pratap Singh, The Hindu, 12 August 2011)
- PDS leakages: the plot thickens (Jean Dreze, Reetika Khera, The Hindu, 12 August 2011)
- PDS often means Private (Re)Distribution Scheme! (Pushpa Achanta, 22 June 2011)
- PDS: Signs of revival (Reetika Khera, The Hindu, 12 June 2011)
- A ration(ed) card? (Pushpa Achanta, 24 May 2011)
- PDS Forever? (Ashok Kotwal, Milind Murugkar, Bharat Ramaswami, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
- Trends in Diversion of Grain from the Public Distribution System (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
- Counting Poorly (Anuradha Raman, Outlook, 30 May 2011)
- Govt must fix grain leak, cash won't keep the pots boiling (Biraj Patnaik, Times of India, 25 March 2011)
- Not Smart Enough (Swati Narayan, The Hindu - Magazine, 27 February 2011)
- Wrong Approach to Food Security (Sharad Joshi, Business Line, 23 January 2011)
2010
- Devil's in the delivery: Why cash, stamps for food will never work (Biraj Patnaik, The Times of India, 26 November, 2010)
- Chhattisgarh shows the way (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, The Hindu, 14 November 2010)
- Food Security Sans PDS: Universalization Through Targeting? (Smita Gupta, Pragoti, 31 October 2010)
- Distribute, procure, store, sow (M.S. Swaminathan, Hindu, 14 September 2010)
- The Wrongs About The Right To Food (Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Outlook, 8 September 2010)
- Not a grain of truth (Samar Harlankar, Hindustan Times, 8 September 2010)
- Haggling over Hunger Index
- Behind the success story of universal PDS in Tamil Nadu (S. Vydhianathan and R. K. Radhakrishnan, The Hindu, 10 August 2010)
- Never enough on the plate (Hindustan Times, 29 July 2010)
- Toads for breakfast (Biraj Patnaik, Hindustan Times, 27 July 2010)
- Food insecurities (R. Ramakumar, Frontline, 17-30 July 2010)
- The task of making the PDS work (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 8 July 2010)
- Chhattisgarh’s food for thought (Biraj Patnaik, Live Mint, 21 April 2010)
