access to the t argeted public Distribution System: a case Study in rajasthan

Abstract

country. Using primary data (collected in 2002) from 400 randomly selected households from eight villages of Rajasthan, the exercise here calculates the proportion of excluded (i e, who qualify according to government criteria but did not get a BPLcard) and included households. Of the one-third of sample households that were classified as bpl, nearly a quarter have been wrongly included. Besides, 44 per cent of the households which should have been counted