As we all know, in India we have been relatively unscathed by the crisis. But note that this is true only in relative terms. We should not forget that India too paid a heavy price as the crisis interrupted our growth momentum and thereby the translation of that growth into poverty reduction.
We owe it to hundreds of millions of poor people in the country to make up for lost time and get cracking on an action plan to make our aspiration of double digit and inclusive growth a reality.