Pre-Study: What to Study
7 Subtopics · 67 ConceptsMeaning and Classification of Subsidies
Meaning of a Subsidy and Why Public Goods Are Excluded
Importance 3/5 What to StudyClassification of Subsidies (Consumer–Producer, Direct–Indirect, Explicit–Implicit, Social–Economic)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyMajor Central Subsidies and Their Fiscal Weight
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDifferent Ways of Disbursing/Implementing Subsidies
Problems with Price Subsidies
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDBT as a Way of Delivering Subsidies
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIncome Support and Universal Basic Income
Importance 2/5 What to StudyPrice Subsidy, DBT and Income Support Compared
Importance 4/5 What to Study
Deregulation of Petrol and Diesel Prices
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLPG Subsidy Through DBT (PAHAL)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and Its Targeted LPG Subsidy
Importance 4/5 What to StudyPhasing Out the Kerosene Subsidy
Importance 2/5 What to StudyUnder-Recoveries, Implicit Fuel Subsidies and Compensation to Oil Marketing Companies
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Fertiliser Use and Regulation
Major Fertilisers, the NPK Ratio and Import Dependence
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFertiliser Control Order Under the Essential Commodities Act
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRetention Pricing Scheme and Its Drawbacks
Importance 2/5 What to StudyUrea Subsidy
New Urea Policy 2015: Gas Pooling and Group-Based Energy Norms
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNeem-Coated Urea
Importance 4/5 What to StudyGovernment Control Over Urea Supply
Importance 4/5 What to StudyProblems of the Urea Subsidy Regime
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNano Urea and Other Nano Fertilisers
Importance 4/5 What to StudyNutrient Based Subsidy
Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme for P&K Fertilisers
Importance 4/5 What to StudyUrea Outside NBS, Its Effects and PM-PRANAM
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDBT in Fertilizer
How DBT Works in Fertilisers
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDirect Cash Transfer and Proposed Fertiliser Reforms
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRecent Fertiliser Schemes
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samruddhi Kendras
Importance 2/5 What to StudyOne Nation One Fertiliser (Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Urvarak Pariyojana)
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Food Corporation of India
Food Corporation of India: Establishment, Objectives and Ministry
Importance 4/5 What to StudyOpen-Ended Procurement: Centralised and Decentralised Systems
Importance 4/5 What to StudyStorage of Foodgrains: Godowns, Silos, CAP and the PEG Scheme
Importance 2/5 What to StudyMovement of Foodgrains from Surplus to Deficit States
Importance 1/5 What to StudyBuffer Stocks: Purposes, Norms and Strategic Reserve
Importance 4/5 What to StudyExcess Stocks and the Open Market Sale Scheme
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFrom Food Scarcity to Surplus: Distortions in the Foodgrain Economy
Importance 3/5 What to StudyComponents of Food Subsidy
Central Issue Price
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEconomic Cost of Foodgrains
Importance 5/5 What to StudyConsumer Subsidy, Buffer Subsidy and Total Food Subsidy
Importance 4/5 What to StudyFood Subsidy Burden, Centre–State Sharing and Off-Budget Financing
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Evolution of PDS
Origin and Early Evolution of PDS
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNature and Scope of PDS: Supplementary Support and Commodities
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRevamped PDS
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTargeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)
Targeting Under TPDS: Identifying the Poor and Transitory Allocation
Importance 4/5 What to StudyAntyodaya Anna Yojana
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEnd Retail Prices Under TPDS
Importance 1/5 What to StudyChallenges and Reforms of PDS
Challenges of PDS
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEnd-to-End Computerisation of PDS
Importance 3/5 What to StudySARTHAK-PDS and SMART-PDS
Importance 3/5 What to StudyDistribution of Fortified Rice Through PDS
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Coverage and Entitlements
Food Security and Nutrition Security: Meaning and Pillars
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNational Food Security Act, 2013: Legal Right and Coverage
Importance 5/5 What to StudyEntitlements of AAY and Priority Households and Issue Prices
Importance 5/5 What to StudyIdentification of Households: Role of Centre and States
Importance 4/5 What to StudyNutritional Support for Pregnant Women, Lactating Mothers and Children
Importance 4/5 What to StudyPradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana and Free Foodgrains Under NFSA
Importance 5/5 What to StudySalient Features of the National Food Security Act
Women Empowerment Under the NFSA
Importance 5/5 What to StudyGrievance Redressal and the State Food Commission
Importance 3/5 What to StudyObligations of the Centre and the States
Importance 3/5 What to StudyOther Provisions: Higher State Benefits, Force Majeure and Farmers' Livelihood
Importance 2/5 What to StudyPortability and Impact
One Nation One Ration Card
Importance 4/5 What to StudyMeasuring Hunger and Malnutrition
Importance 3/5 What to StudyHas the NFSA Reduced Hunger and Malnutrition?
Importance 4/5 What to Study
Shanta Kumar Committee: Mandate and Context
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRecommendations on Procurement
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRecommendations on PDS and NFSA
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRecommendations on Stocking, Movement and Buffer Liquidation
Importance 3/5 What to StudyDirect Cash Subsidy to Farmers and Fertiliser Deregulation
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLabour, Computerisation and the New Face of FCI
Importance 2/5 What to StudyHow Far the Recommendations Have Been Implemented
Importance 3/5 What to Study