It seems like I see my friend Montek Ahluwalia somewhere every two or three months.

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Montek Ahluwalia, of India's Planning Commission, said last year that he reckoned only 16% of the resources earmarked for the poor under the country's subsidised food distribution scheme ever reached them.

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So the picture of inclusiveness, in the words of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, remains "mixed".

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