Nepal, March 27 -- India plunged into structural adjustment programmes and substantial economic reforms mostly in the 1990s. Reasons attributed to these far reaching policies were deepening poverty and inequality, macro economic instability, 'Hindu growth regime', incongruent financial and capital market, public sector-led industrial deceleration, staggering infrastructure deficit, poor governance and sharp regional disparities. The adoption and implementation of these reforms, largely carried out under the aegis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, vary across the 36 states and union territories in India in terms of time schedule, sectoral coverage , intensity, sustainability, political commitment and people's acceptanc...