Any meaningful discussion about PDS in 2015 must necessarily reckon with grain market\'s supply and storage schedule, operating protocol and depth of involvement of local self-governing institutions. The later two are significant to get to the deep biases articulated in the Shanta Kumar panel report on FCI restructuring. Looked at from this broader perspective NCAER study in fact justifies poor storage and supply schedule of grain in the country. The other critical issue subsumed in the study mutatis mutandis is the concept of TPDS - decentralised procurement - model APMC Act - introduction of AAY - first High Level Committee - Supreme Court appointed CVC on PDS between 1997-2003. 