Voice of America: In India, Cash Replaces Food Rations for Poor Oct 24th 2012, 11:56 Voice of America | Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries | | In India, Cash Replaces Food Rations for Poor Oct 24th 2012, 10:40 India has ambitious plans to make cash payments to the poor to overcome massive fraud and theft in the country's social welfare schemes. India operates the world's largest public food distribution system to prevent hunger, but billions of dollars of these subsidies never reach the poor. Raj Kumar, an auto rickshaw driver living in a West Delhi slum colony, received about $20 every month last year in place of food such as wheat and sugar. Kumar got the money ... | | |  | |
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