In order to enable people to buy more nutritious food, India should be moving towards direct benefit transfer, especially for people who are not very poor. One hopes that in food surplus states, DBT for food will be tried so people can buy pulses, meat, fish or other proteins
To ensure proper distribution of food grains allocated under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to the beneficiaries included under the National Food Security Act, 2013, the state.
India surprised buyers in July by imposing a ban on the export of widely consumed non-basmati white rice, following a ban on broken rice exports last year.