B. Canadian government provides healthcare to its citizens
Explanation:
Civil Society is formed by a “group of non-governmental organisation and institutions” with the main aim of helping people.
Some of the groups are “service organisation, church groups, youth groups” etc.
These groups help in maintaining Democracy in a State and bring out transparency with regard to the policies and rules created. Many NGO, conduct shows like debate etc., in bringing out this.
Many civil society groups have helped women, HIV affected people etc. They get money in the form of grants to help according to the project selected by them. Otherwise, they don’t get any earnings and they are thoroughly a self-mobilized group.
Answer:
The following are the advantages of the public distribution system:
1. It has helped in stabilizing food prices and making food available to consumers at affordable prices.
2. It has helped in avoiding hunger and famine by supplying food from surplus regions of the country to deficient regions.
3. The system of minimum support price and procurement has contributed to increase in food grain production.
The following are the disadvantages of the public distribution system;
1. Instances of hunger occur despite granaries being full. This points to certain lacunae or inefficiency in the system.
2. High level of buffer stocks often leads to wastage of food grains and deterioration in quality.
3. The storage of food grains inculcates high carrying costs on the government.
