Is the PDS (Public Distribution System) is full proof or it should be scraped?

Scrapping P.D.S. ? No .. no. Improve the system, seal the loopwholes and make it more innovative, if possible. The PDS is the alternative force to keep a check on reckless price manipulations by unscrupuls traders, agents, hoarders.

One may not think to increase the hurdships of the BPL people by withdrawing PDS. Even more and more essential commodities may be brought under PDS. Further, even for APL, upto a braket may be brought under PDS. We may not see that specially prices of food grains are being manipulated for (mere) profit making. PDS is a challenge - make it a success.

Is it PDS alone that is mis-managed?

At this rate it is difficult to imagine.......what next...

The Chhatisgarh goverment has shown the way other states should not feel shy to learn.

Accountability in bureaucracy and linking their survival on the job with performance can correct the situation in months, not years. Unfortunately scratch my back thought process in Gov-polity would never have the will to endorse.

Look at it from both sides... where i have seen these shops. they literally stank. Also, the quality of grains and stuff they give is absolutely bad. 

On the Other hand.... it server as a very good distribution channel for the government agencies... 

Its a tough call to take... on the whole, i guess its required. The system needs to be cleaned though... And the hoarding because of this system has to be stopped. 

When thats done... and the quality improved.... it can be a better system....

No, it should not be scrapped.  Even in the most developed economies many subsidies exist like farm subsidies in the US & Western Europe, etc.

In India PDS is meant to protect BPL people from the vagaries of the open-market price mechanism, it should be made more foolproof to ensure that it objective is not defeated by allowing it to be enjoyed by the 'Above Poverty Line' people as is happening now, with so many millions of bogus claimants for the PDS.

I dont think scrapping PDS is even an idea that can be  remotely contemplated. Especially when it is pegged to the Concept of Poverty line. Right from 70's in the face of food shortages- due to a regime of inefficient distribution- in a mixed economy context to today's inflationary pressures in a growing liberalised economy, PDS is the only mechanism by which  an efficient distribution of essential commodities is possible and there is no viable or  for that matter any alternative to it all. I doubt hoarding and Black market profiteering is routed through PDS on a scale to say that there is a necessity to scrap it. In the present milieu, each distribution outlet gets only that much of stocks of Essential commodities as it has to cater to the beneficiaries on its rolls. This compulsion is because the state is one more player in the commodities markets and it simply cant ignore laws of supply and demand vis a vis subsidised distribution. The more pressing need is to vigorously enforce laws like Essential commodities Act and Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenence of Essential commodities act etc through active participation of the States of the Union.