The impact of pds on food security among aay card holders in melukav panchyath of Kottayam District, Kerala Thomas Deepa K*, Dr. Shanmugam P.** *Ph. D. scholar Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India **Assistant professor, Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India Online published on 9 February, 2018. Abstract Public Distribution System is the largest food distribution network in the world. It provides food grains at highly subsidized prices. Kerala is a consumer state; most of the food and non-food-articles comes from the other states and from the government welfare schemes. Along with PDS land reforms, the spread of education, health care, pension schemes and Kudumbashree are also playing an effective role in reducing poverty ratios in Kerala. Even though various schemes, steered by governmental and non-governmental organizations, dealt with poverty reduction in Kerala, there are still several pockets of food deprivation in the state, especially among tribal population and fishermen communities. Therefore the present study focuses only on the current administration of PDS among AAY cardholders of Melukav Panchyath in Kottayam District. The result of the study indicates that, the present system of PDS act as a social welfare and anti-poverty scheme of the government which brings food security among the poor people, by having a positive impact on price, quantity and monthly expenses of the AAY card holders. Top Keywords Public Distribution System, Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Food Security. Top |