(i) Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutrition Meal Programme
(ii) Pradhan Manthri Gramodaya Yojana Scheme.
(iii) Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Programme
(iv) Mid-day Meal Programme.

(i) Under universal PDS all the family ration card holders are entitled to the supplies from PDS. Tamil Nadu has adopted universal PDS.
(ii) In the targeted PDS, the beneficiaries are identified based on certain criteria and given their entitlements, leaving out the rest. The rest of the states in India have adopted targeted PDS.

The FCI had built huge storage godowns and built buffer stocks of food grain were stored during the harvest season to be distributed all through the year.

There are 3 basic components of food and nutrition security they are availability, access and absorption
i) Availability of food:
It is physical availability of food stocks in desired quantities,
ii) Access to food:
Access to food is primarily a matter of purchasing power, linked with the capabilities and employment opportunities to earn.
iii) Absorption of food:
Absorption of food is the ability to biologically utilise the food consumed.

a) Raising the productivity of Inputs:
One of the important objectives of India's agricultural policy is to improve the productivity of inputs so purchased like HYV seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, irrigation projects etc.
b) Raising value-added per hectare :
Agricultural policy is to increase per hectare value-added rather than raising physical output by raising the productivity of agriculture in general and productivity of small and marginal holding in particular.
c) Protecting the interests of poor farmers:
Agricultural policy in proposed to protect the interests of poor and marginal farmers by abolishing intermediaries through land reforms, expanding in institutional credit support to poor farmers, etc.
d) Modernising agricultural sector:
Here the policy support includes the introduction of modern technology in agricultural operations and application of improved agricultural inputs like HYV seeds, fertilizers, etc.
e) Environmental degradation :
Agricultural policy of India has set another objective to check environmental degradation of natural base of Indian agriculture,
f) Removing bureaucratic obstacles:
The policy has set another objective to reserve bureaucratic obstacles on the farmer's co- operative societies and self help institutions so that they can work independently.