Must empower women: Naidu

Hyderabad: Vice- president M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said that empowering women would enable them lead a life of dignity, respect and make informed decisions, as he stressed on the need to build coalitions against gender discrimination. With women constituting almost half of India’s population, their empowerment educationally, socially and politically is the fundamental requirement for the country to unleash the forces of growth and achieve rapid progress, he said. The vicepresident said government and civil society must be active collaborators to achieve tangible results.