• Lige Sora

Public Distribution System is a programme through which the food grains and non-food grains are being provided to the underprivileged households at subsidized rate. Under this programme the beneficiaries are identified into four categories viz; Above Poverty Line (APL), Below Poverty Line (BPL), Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Annapurna. However, since inception lots of the scholars has put forwarded their concerned about the methodology being applied during enumeration of beneficiaries list for Public Distribution System. For instances, Mehrotra & Mander (2009) question the methodology used in BPL census 2002 and suggested newer methodology; Jain, (2004) revealed the co-existence of inclusion and exclusion error in enumeration of BPL households; Alkire & Seth, (2013) compares three identification methods. In addition of those, Mane (2006) have suggested to taking in to account such as household occupation, land owned, housing conditions, numbers of earners and possession of various types of durable goods like TV, refrigerators, motor cycles, tractors and so on. Therefore, the present study analyzed the households characteristics of Public Distribution System beneficiaries by taken care of the criteria been suggested while enumerate beneficiaries list. The study is based on the primary data and the same was collected from West Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh with the help of structured questionnaire. The study found presence of huge inclusion error in the identification of PDS beneficiaries.

Public Distribution System, Identification, Beneficiaries, Error

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF PUBLICDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS) BENEFICIARIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.23-33, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809654.pdf

"SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF PUBLICDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS) BENEFICIARIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp23-33, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809654.pdf