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Snags in the Food Security Policy of India

  • UPSC 2013
  • Contemporary Issues

The policy is a physical chain — procure, store, move, distribute — and every link loses grain or entitlement; Amartya Kumar Sen's entitlement approach fixes the diagnosis, since hunger follows collapsing command over food rather than absent supply.

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  • Procurement is Open-Ended, But Only for Two Cereals
  • The Regional Concentration of Surplus
  • Storage Loss and the Buffer-Norm Paradox
  • Leakage, Diversion and Targeting Error
  • The Fiscal Weight

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