In India, the government has begun rolling out an ambitious plan to replace subsidies with direct cash payments in a bid to eliminate graft. The government says the cash transfer plan will benefit millions of poor people, but questions have been raised about how it will work.
Since the start of the new year, 245,000 people across 20 districts in India are getting pension and scholarship money transferred directly into their bank accounts, instead of having to wait to receive it from post …
