Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the actual poor, despite the government boasting about the impact of those schemes on reducing moderate and extreme poverty, according to a taskforce report.

What kind of a country do we live in where 60-year-olds are forced to pull rickshaws to earn livelihood?

Why cut back on public food distribution programmes when they are needed the most?