00986pab a2200169 454500 180718b2006 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Gulati, Archana G. Empowering rural India: from pipe dreams to reality 2006 p.24-29. Apr The earlier world view of India as an over populated, backward and poverty stricken state has changed. We are now being touted as a fast developing IT super power. Yet, a lot needs to be done to ensure wider distribution of these gains of growth and to put in place the right policies today in order to sustain and even accelerate the pace of growth in the future. How can we speak of ourselves as an emerging global power unless this vast mass of humanity is on board the express of Economic Development, the author queries. - Reproduced. Economic and social development - India Economic and social development Kurukshetra 69295 69295 69295 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 54, Issue no: 6 AR69751 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR