| Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil was born on December 19, 1934. She is the present President of India. On July 25, 2007, she was sworn in as the President. She is the 12th person and the first women to hold this position. She was also the first woman Governor of Rajasthan. Together with her husband, she has set up an educational institute, Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Jalgaon and Mumbai. |