Making pretty permalinks work in WAMP

I am not able to switch to pretty permalinks in WAMP. Changing to any form other than default gives 404 error.
I have switched on the rewrite_module in Apache. I googled the problem and found that following changes should be made to httpd.conf file. My httpd.conf file stands as

<Directory />
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

I also checked that the .htaccess file is getting created. It reads as

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /vit%20web/events/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /vit%20web/events/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress