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Akanki agrawal

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Wrong answer (Question: 336369.0 )

Option b is the right answer.
Please check your answer again .

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chirag

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wrong answer (Question: 336369.0 )

u don't even know the meaning of rationing, do u?

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and mark the correct answer.

The Public Distribution System (PDS) was set-up in India originally as a rationing system to cope with the food shortages during the Second World War period. From 1965, it expanded into a universal system for delivering cheap foodgrain such as wheat and rice and certain other essential commodities such as sugar, edible oil and kerosene. While the major objectives of the PDS has been to act as a welfare measure to provide these goods at prices that are relatively lower than the market, it has also acted as a countervailing force to prevent speculation in prices by profit-oriented private traders Since the PDS constitutes a major outlet for the sale of grain procured by the procurement agencies, it is an important link in the support system provided to farmers by the government. Over the years, the buffer stocks maintained by the PDS have served to ensure price stability and self-sufficiency of food even in years of severe draught, and thereby helped to maintain the economic sovereignty of the cou

What is PDS and what was its origin?

Options:

A) Public Distribution System was set-up in Second World War period to supply food

B) Public Distribution System was a system supplying food in fixed quantity during Second World War

C) Public Distribution System was a food giving system to all during Second World War

D) Public Distribution System was a system distributing all essentials in Second World War

Solution:

Ans: (a)

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