This book is an attempt to take the readers through the process of Women and Child Development in Gujarat. It is about programs and leadership in Women and Child Development in Gujarat. This is not a chronological account of campaigns and schemes, but yes, it is a statement of the "achievements" of the programs; it is an attempt to sketch the evolution of the thought process and the transitions within it. Gujarat has followed a pathbreaking model of development.

Women and Child Development in Gujarat has gone way beyond statistics and become an established model that needs to be emulated without any doubt.