PATH was running its office in India without proper authorisation and approval of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoH) and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Yet it was allowed to carry out a large scale vaccination program for Merck's Gardasil vaccine against HPV.
Through her example, Pritilata Waddedar sent out a message to the women of Bengal that they can march shoulder to shoulder with men in liberating the country from the British.