Poll: Only three percent of Indians understand economic reforms © AFP

NEW DELHI: India, which celebrated its 58th anniversary as a republic yesterday, January 26, may be registering blistering rates of growth but only three percent of its people understand the economic reforms being implemented and most think they have benefited only the rich, said a survey. "Seventy-two percent of Indians were unaware of the economic changes that the country has been going through since 1991" when India launched market reforms, said the survey published in the Hindustan Times. Sixty-two percent also felt the changes in economic policy benefited only the rich, said the poll by the New Delhi-based Center for the Study of Developing Societies for the Hin­dustan Times and news channel CNN-IBN. The survey questioned 7,681 people across 19 states of India.  I never thought it would be that bad. Maybe they interviewed mostly young people who were too young to remember. Anotther nail in the coffin of India's education system.