00958pab a2200181 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Narasimhan, Sakuntala Women's role in Gram Sabha 1999 p.35-38 Oct Women 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 Women in rural development Rural development - India Panchayat Kurukshetra 42619 42619 42619 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 48, Issue no: 1 AR43004 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR