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    The public distribution system in India began during the inter-war period to distribute essential commodities, and focused on food grains in urban areas due to shortages in 1960. It helped contain food price rises and ensured urban access to food. After the Green Revolution boosted agricultural production, the public distribution system expanded its reach to tribal and poor rural areas in the 1970s-1980s. The system became targeted in 1992 and 1997 to focus on specific low-income groups rather than being a general entitlement.

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    The public distribution system in India began during the inter-war period to distribute essential commodities, and focused on food grains in urban areas due to shortages in 1960. It helped contain food price rises and ensured urban access to food. After the Green Revolution boosted agricultural production, the public distribution system expanded its reach to tribal and poor rural areas in the 1970s-1980s. The system became targeted in 1992 and 1997 to focus on specific low-income groups rather than being a general entitlement.

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    The public distribution system in India began during the inter-war period to distribute essential commodities, and focused on food grains in urban areas due to shortages in 1960. It helped contain food price rises and ensured urban access to food. After the Green Revolution boosted agricultural production, the public distribution system expanded its reach to tribal and poor rural areas in the 1970s-1980s. The system became targeted in 1992 and 1997 to focus on specific low-income groups rather than being a general entitlement.

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    EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC DIDTRIBUTION SYSTEM

    Public Distribution of essential commodities had been in existence in India during the inter-war period. PDS, with its focus on distribution of food grains in urban scarcity areas, had emanated from the critical food shortages of 1960. PDS had substantially contributed to the containment of rise in food grains prices and ensured access of food to urban consumers. As the national agricultural production had grown in the aftermath of Green Revolution, the outreach of PDS was extended to tribal blocks and areas of high incidence of poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. PDS, till 1992, was a general entitlement scheme for all consumers without any specific target. Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS) was launched in June 1992 in 1775 blocks throughout the country.The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) was introduced with effect from June 1997.

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