World’s biggest democracy has among world’s worst poverty rates but is experimenting with new programs like handing land to India’s rural poor directly

India to hand plots of land to rural poor

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An Indian farming family plough a field in preparation for sowing cotton in Kayla village, near Ahmedabad on July 15, 2011. India’s government is drawing up a major new welfare reform which would hand small plots of land to millions of homeless poor in the countryside, reports.