FUNCTIONING OF PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN COVID 19 PERIOD

Public Distribution system functioning is an important for ensuring food security especially for the weaker section. PDS has succeeded in securing minimum food requirement but in large size families it food requirement is insufficient. In the pandemic situation small, marginal size family is very difficult to livelihood due to loss of earning. For the welfare of the people the central Government and Statement government has announced several measures to deal with the food in -security situation. For protecting the requirement of food the Central and State government announced to distribute food items to all ration card holder at free of cost, in addition Rs. 1000 , Rs. 500 kits and mosk are provided to imbalanced situation of covid 19 period. In this situation ration shop functioning well. Hence this paper mainly focuses on functioning of ration shop in the pandemic situation.