 She is the founder of Nirbhaya Vahini, Nirbhaya Samaroh and OYSS Women.She has served on the panel of Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board) for India  and Inquiry Committee of the National Commission for Women.Born to a poor family in a remote village of Odisha, she fought successfully the widely prevalent social taboo against educating women, walked 15 km daily amidst hilly terrain and swamp to the only high school in the entire region to emerge as first woman matriculate of her village and subsequently the first woman law graduate of her region.