- Availability
- Affordability
- Stability
- Nutrition
Procurement
- No open-ended procurement
- Appropriate quality checks
- Popularize warehouse receipts
- Decentralized procurement system
- FCI will accept only surplus after need of states fulfilled
Storage
- Optimization of storage capacity
- Store using silos instead of gunny bags
- Building warehouses and cold storage facilities through PPP finance
- Stocking forex instead of grains
- for easier imports if needed
Transport
- Containers instead of gunny bags
- Focus on mechanization
- Voluntary retirement to permanent staff
- Replace unwanted labor
Distribution
- NFSA to cover 40% of the population instead of 67%
- DCT to the lady of the house
- 6 months ration at once instead of monthly distribution to reduce storage requirements
- gradual introduction of cash transfers in PDS
Other Suggestions
- Tech (biometric identification, digital record) to curb leakages
- expand PDS coverage to reach more vulnerable groups, have targeted subsidies
- allot greater budget to improve quality of goods
- Replace FCI labour with mechanization
- Involving civil society organization and community groups in implementation and monitoring of PDS to ensure accountability and transparency.