Area	Application Centre
Chennai city and neighbouring areas	Assistant Commissioner of Civil Supplies of appropriate zones
Districts other than Chennai	Taluk Supply Officers of the Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department or  Assistant Rationing Officers
Across Tamil Nadu	Submit via Registered Post with Acknowledgement Due (RPAD)

Contact number of Flying Squad members

Monthly Allotment of each Fair Price Shop

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Other Entitlements

Amma Unavagam Budget Canteens

Budget canteens open to all in 200 wards of Chennai and 9 other cities    Quantity  Price  Idli and Sambhar (Breakfast)  1 plate ₹ 1  Pongal and Sambhar (Breakfast)  1 plate ₹ 5  Sambhar Rice  1 plate ₹ 3  Curd Rice  1 plate ₹ 3   Tamarind Rice or Curry Leaf Rice  1 plate ₹ 5

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Research

PDS - The Tamil Nadu Way 
PDS - Hunger and Food Security 
PDS - Better Services to Customers
Public Distribution System Pamphlet (Tamil)

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News

2015

14 transgenders given ration cards (Times of India 24 Apr 2015)

Shortage of urad dal in PDS outlets in TN (NYOOOZ 16 Apr 2015)

PDS Grievance meeting in Tiruchirapally (The Hindu, 11 April 2015)

AIADMK man arrested for smuggling rice meant for PDS (The Times of India, 10 April 2015)

PDS Rice consignment detained (NewsHub.org, 23 February 2015)

PDS rice seized, one held (The Hindu, 24 February 2015)

75 rice bags meant for PDS seized (The Hindu, 19 February 2015)

Scared residents want ration shop in their midst (The Hindu 9 February 2015)

Social audit of PDS shops (The Hindu 25 January 2015)

Fixing of inner sheets for renewal of PDS cards from December 15 (Hindu, 30 November 2014)

No ration card: demonstration held in Coimbatore (Hindu, 28 October 2014)

A Herculean task to get ration card (L Srikrishna, The Hindu, 29 September 2014)

Nod for project to computerize PDS (The Hindu, 21 September 2014)

Farmers market complex can house PDS outlets, say residents (The Hindu, 30 August 2014)

Man Held for Bid to Smuggle 7 Ton PDS Rice (The New Indian Express, 27 August 2014)

AIADMK MLA Threatens to Lock Up PDS Shops (The New Indian Express, 25 August 2014)

42 Quintal PDS Rice Seized (The New Indian Express, 12 August 2014)

Food Officials in Mysore Dist Fail to Check Rice Smuggling (The New Indian Express, 10 May 2014)

Neutralising impact of price rise? ( T Ramakrishnan, The Hindu, 12 April 2014)

AIADMK’s negligence leads to power crisis: Kanimozhi? (The Hindu, 10 April 2014)

Bench restrains Collector from constructing ration shop (The Hindu, 12 March 2014)
Food Security Scheme will be Replaced with UPDS: AIADMK (The Indian Express, 25 February 2014)
Low quality PDS rice distributed in Gandhigram, say villagers (The Times of India, 22 February 2014)

Free PDS rice smuggled out of Tamil Nadu, sold at profit (Vivek Narayanan, The Hindu,8 Feb 2014)

Several business unit yet to register under Food Security Act (The Hindu, 18 Jan 2014)

Oppose WTO agreement on trade: Safe Food Alliance (The Hindu, 5 January 2014)