Growth sans equity

  • 25/02/2003

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

It is easy to be cynical about Madhya Pradesh Chief Ministre Digvijay Singh's attempts at rural empowerment and social justice, and to dismiss these as a ploy to hide the state's lack of economic development during the decade that he's been at its helm. Indeed, while Digvijay Singh's strategy is based almost entirely on social development, the third Human Development Report brought out by his government earlier this month, shows just how poor the record is in most areas