Baroness Prashar is a trustee of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity initiating fresh debate on the burning questions facing society.

She was appointed a trustee of the BBC World Service Trust in 2002, and was president of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

She was sworn of the Privy Council the same year[4] to facilitate access to the classified information related to the Iraq War.

She was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours for services to community relations,[5] and was made a life peer on 15 July 1999 as Baroness Prashar, of Runnymede, in the County of Surrey.

Later in 2018, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India.