Information system for safety net implementation

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Economic liberalization, which is essential for accelerated growth of the national economy, can succeed in the long run only if appropriate safety nets are designed to safeguard the well-being of the people who are affected in the short term including the people below the poverty line and the people displaced from their jobs due to increasing modernization. In the case of food security, the variability in food supplies and transportation bottlenecks aggravate and compound the insecurity caused by liberalization. To make liberalization sustainable, the Government in particular and the social and economic functionaries in general have to carefully design and implement a food security system with local, state-wise, national and international linkages. The Public Distribution System, especially, should be fast reactive to remedy the insecure food supplies for segments of the population. The reaction time constants can be minimised by working out a computer-communication network based infor

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