the goal of the public distribution system in tamil nadu is to ensure food security to all citizens, particularly poor people, by making available essential commodities of good quality at affordable prices every month, through fair price shops which are easily accessible.

tamil nadu is the first state to have introduced a classification in the status of local bodies as town panchayat, which was planned as a transitional body between rural and urban local bodies.

department of animal husbandry and dairying,