India is emerging as “an economic power house” in South Asia and “all countries in the region have an opportunity to link up with the Indian economy and improve their own prospects of growth”, feels Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri MM Pallam Raju. The Minister was speaking at the inaugural session of the opening day of the international conference on South Asia, ‘Prospects for Stability and Growth in South Asia’ at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on November 6-7, 2012.