A Critical Study of Public Distribution System as a Tool for Achieving Sustainable Goal - 2030 and Food Security in Jharkhand

Food Security plays a crucial role for India to achieve the sustainable development goal -2030 (SDG 2) of zero hunger which aims for a future where every individual has adequate nutrition. Sustainable food security will have to be defined as physical, economic, social, and ecological access to balanced diets and safe drinking water, to enable every individual to lead a productive and healthy life in perpetuity. India is a country where 1/3 rd of the total population is dependent on agriculture as the chief means of livelihood. Therefore, sustainability of food is itself is a very important phenomenon where observe certain issue like, poverty, starvation, malnutrition, alienation and so on. For this, the government of India has also taken various initiatives, for a greater management of food in the country. Sustainable development denotes the idea of using resources in a way that can be reused for the future generation. It is a means of conservation of resources for the further use. Public distribution system is one of the instruments for improving food security at the household level in India where millions of poor suffer persistent poverty and malnutrition. The central and state government share responsibility for running PDS.