In Chhattisgarh, electronic devices for the Public Distribution System (PDS) for food assistance reduced ‘leakages’ from 52 per cent in 2005 to 9 per cent in 2012, says World Development Report of the World Bank 2019 titled ' The Changing Nature of Work' (Working Draft) released on April 20 this year.
Social insurance programs such as India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been linked to decreased violence by offering up alternative sources of income to those who might be tempted to join local insurgencies , it informed.
Administrative data under India’s massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Act program has offered powerful insights about local labor markets. For example, returns to primary schooling in India increased during the Green Revolution, with the more educated farmers adopting and diffusing new technologies.
During the Green Revolution in India in the 1970s-80s, it was the more educated farmers who were able to adopt and diffuse new technologies, it stated.
Notably, Chhattisgarh has achieved 100 per cent digitisation of the Public Distribution System (PDS) beneficiaries database,officials here informed.
There are 23 other states in the country which have also achieved 100 per cent digitization of the PDS database, they stated.
Chhattisgarh’s PDS model has gram panchayats, co-operative societies and women's self help groups (SHGs) operating the fair price shops, officials stated.
About 90 % of the masses are covered under Food and Nutrition Security Act which was implemented in 2013, officials stated.
Chhattisgarh’s PDS under Antyodaya and Priority families schemes provides 35 kg foodgrains at Re 1 per kilo. Since June 2014 single member category ration card-holders under destitutes segment are provided 10 kg food grains free of cost.