A social worker, she was the first Gorkha woman from Assam to obtain a post-graduate degree and was the founder-president of the Assam chapter of the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP), an all-India organisation of the Gorkhas

The assistance was sanctioned following Haripal’s appeal to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi last year, seeking support to rebuild his crumbling ancestral house