Financial and distributional implications of the food security law

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 28-30

  Mishra, Prachi ^a  

^a Ministry of Finance   (India)

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EID: 84885199619     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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1. We recognise that there is considerable variation across states in the implementation of the TPDS (with near universal PDS in many states). The exercise here simulates the distributional implications of moving into the NFSB assuming allocations and issue prices for BPL and APL as assumed by the central government. This exercise can be repeated in principle for different states taking into account the differences in implementation. The political necessity to protect existing beneficiaries is likely to have different implications for different states.