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Abstract : A number of general efforts are being made and special programmes are being implemented by the Government of India during the planning era to improve the life of poor people in India. it is realized that the trickledown effect is no more effective, self and wage employment programmes have their limitations and defects and did not capable to wipe out the miserable life of the poor masses in India. Present practice of the Government of India of processing for cash transfers is not useful strategy to uplift the poor people. In fact, TPDS and other welfare programmes with some sort of improvement are very useful to increase the living standard of the targeted people in India. the researcher in this paper taken efforts to combine all welfare programme in single roof by making their evaluations. The researcher used primary and secondary data for scientific examination and concluded that the cash transfer system has limitations to work for, and to deal with, it is essential to implement properly the welfare programmes to uplift poor masses in India. This means TPDS and other welfare programmes are useful, but some kind of reforms therein is very vital to increase their relevance to enhance the life of the poor and general masses in India.