00907pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002600040245003100066260000900097300001200106362000800118520053200126650003100658650003000689650001400719773001600733180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNarasimhan, Sakuntala  aWomen's role in Gram Sabha  c1999  ap.35-38  aOct  aWomen in particular - and more specifically, rural poor and illiterate women never get portrayed as agents of change. In almost all plans for poverty alleviation and social change, this subset of disadvantaged women become a `target' in developmental activities rather than a group to be coopted as active participants. Yet if innumerable success stories spearheaded by women can be identified, proving that women who are poor in money terms need not necessarily be poor in terms of capacity for initiating change. - Reproduced  aWomen in rural development  aRural development - India  aPanchayat  aKurukshetra