According to President Pratibha Patil there is no alternate to women empowerment if they have to entail social parity in the nation.

If women are miserable, particularized homes, culture and the country will not flourish. She was attending to a women and farmers meeting subsequent to the inauguration of the statue of late Shankarrao Patil on the silver jubilee fête of Shankarrao Patil Cooperative Sugar Mill at Indapur.

She further added that the women had struggled side by side with men throughout the freedom effort. However the actual force of democracy will sway in true only subsequent to the women are monetarily free.

Today, the nation has above 2.5 lakhs confined civic bodies where 12 lakhs out of 32 lakhs legislative body are women. This has by now made sure for political empowerment of women and additional numeral of women must come ahead to fetch improvements in the society.

In her 20-minute communication, President Patil stroked ahead a number of issues starting from rural development to green development.