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This caselet is meant for learners pursuing a course in Operations Management. The caselet helps to understand and describe supply chain and supply chain management in the context of India's Public Distribution System. In India Public Distribution System (PDS) and its improved version Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) distributes scheduled commodities to the targeted citizens through a network of institutions comprising Food Corporation of India (FCI) warehouses and Fair Price Shops (FPS). However, this system is fraught with many difficulties such as inefficiency, deterioration of food grains, unsatisfactory quality of commodities, malpractices in weights and measures, mismatch of demand and supply, long waiting times, exorbitant corruption, rude behavior of shopkeepers and poor service delivery. How can these be avoided? What would be best way to manage supply chain of PDS? This caselet gives scope to debate and answer the above questions.