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Govt evaluating impact of PDS rations on inflation
Hindustan Times
|November 22, 2024
When Dubai got selected as the host for the World Expo 2020, Baskin Robbins declared it would serve everyone who walked into their outlets in the UAE a free scoop of ice-cream.
Hell broke loose. The American ice-cream chain couldn't handle a surge of crowds, which spilled from one street to another for a single scoop of its most basic ice-cream.
Consumers tend to feel irrationally drawn to free stuff, known as the zero-price effect. Some economists consider zero price to be a price point that can impact inflation.
India offers food grains to nearly 813 million needy people at zero price, or for free, under the National Food Security Act 2013. Through the public distribution system (PDS), each beneficiary gets five kilos of rice or wheat, which before the pandemic was anyway heavily subsidized at 3 and 2 per kilo respectively.
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