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India introduces welfare changes

Posted: January 2, 2013 at 5:22 a.m.

India will send billions of dollars in social-welfare money directly to its poor under a new program inaugurated Tuesday, aiming to cut out the middlemen blamed for the fraud that plagues the system.

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