She was born on 13 July, 1938 in Calcutta. She achieved graduate and post graduate degrees from Delhi University. She achieved a Ph.D degree under the guidance of Prof. B. M. Johari on the subject “Tissue Culture of Flowers of Alium Cepa,” Under the guidance of S.C. Maheshwari, she invented a technique for production of haploid plant by culturing stamen from the flowers of Datura innoxia. This technique is utilized in the field of agriculture to develop new varieties of crop plants. She died of brain tumour on 15 September, 2007.
