And despite the occasional slip of a date reference from various executives, an official ship date still hasn't been set.

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Thirdly, they complain that the beneficiaries of the scheme are to be picked by reference to official poverty data, out-of-date and unreliable (the 150 districts, for example, are not necessarily the poorest).

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Reference books need never go out of date.

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