I don't know if you intend to merely troll. But sir, majority of population sleeping hungry - this shows a gross negligence of ground affairs on your part.
Do google the Public Food Distribution in India. Very fine quality food grains procured mainly from Punjab, Haryana and West UP are distributed at just 1rs per kg to the poor. No one sleeps hungry in India.
If any person were to die of hunger , entire administration would be suspended immediately.
Well Its more of a Distribution Problem in country Diverse as India and With 1.37 population to feed
Indian Produces 3 times The food that required For its population We have Buffer To last 1 year
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/page1/india-has-over-1-yr-foodgrain-reserve.html
This is from recent study. Though, if i completely ignore the research article and just buy the narrative that's being spread for a hypothetical scenario - subsidized
5 kg of grains/ month for a family. is equivalent to sleeping hungry. And then of course they can buy it on normal rates from market but look the numbers for wealth distribution from the report from OXFAM i've referenced in the end of this post.
4.2. Effectiveness of the PDS
Eight articles specifically examined the effectiveness of the PDS. Each of these studies suggested that the PDS was not working effectively, with large amounts of food not reaching the intended recipients, and significant wastage resulting in high costs for limited benefits. For example, Dhanaraj and Gade [
53] estimated that in Tamil Nadu, for every 5.43 kgs of PDS rice distributed by the government, only 1 kg reached those in need; the distribution was less efficient in the case of sugar, where only 1 kg for each 8.21 kgs distributed was consumed by those in need. Kumar [
58], in a large investigation spanning 12 states, found that up to 100% of wheat was diverted in some cases, with diversion and provision of rice and wheat being different across all states. Khera [
54], suggested that households cannot access their full entitlement to goods, and as a result are forced to purchase much of their food from the free market. Conversely, a positive trend was identified in the state of Bihar, where in 1993, 90% of food grains were diverted away from those in need; by 2001 this figure was down to just 12.5% of diverted food grain [
56]. Similar findings were reported by Nair [
61] in Kerala. In both states, this was attributed to better transparency and infrastructure.
4.3. Barriers and Enablers to the Efficient Working of the PDS
A number of barriers and enablers influencing the efficient working of the PDS were investigated across the studies included in this review. One key barrier to a more efficient system was the presence of illegal (or ghost) cards, with the finding that some households hold multiple cards [
51,
58]. The illegal cards were identified in several states, with Kumar [
58] suggesting that there were approximately 230 million excess cards across the country in 2006.
Despite a number of significant, system-wide changes over recent years, high levels of corruption and leakage continue to plague the PDS [
48,
53,
54]. Part of this leakage occurs at the level of the fair price shops, where Gupta and Singh [
48] reported that some store owners exchanged the high quality goods provided from the government for distribution through the PDS with lesser quality goods from the general stores. Both Khera [
54] and Dhanaraj and Gade [
53] reported very high rates of corruption within the system, in some states this was up to 100% leakage or ‘diversion’ from the supply chain. Transparency, better governance, technology and the introduction of computerisation, along with use of global positioning system and distribution via doorstep delivery have been suggested as potential ways to address these issues [
45,
56].
Targeting errors, specifically the problems associated with targeting BPL and APL households were identified as areas where efficiencies could be made [
45,
52,
58]. These studies suggest that while there was some effort to target the BPL households, the targeting has had a marginal effect on poor households [
52]. There is also a suggestion from Kumar [
58] that non-poor households have been included in the PDS to the detriment of the system. This is consistent with the work of Nair [
61], who suggest that better targeting and the removal of APL households, that is, a removal of universal nature of the system, would have significant positive impacts on the operation and effects of the PDS.
reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747310/
this is from the report from oxfam
India’s top 10% of the population holds 74.3% of the total national wealth. The contrast is even sharper for the top 1%. India’s top 1% of population holds 42.5% of national wealth while the bottom 50%, the majority of the population, owns a mere 2.8% of the national wealth. In other words, the top 1% hold more than 4 times the amount of wealth held by 953 million people (or the bottom 70% of the population). The bottom 90 percent holds 25.7 percent of national wealth. Wealth of top 9 billionaires is equivalent to the wealth of the bottom 50% of the population.