[1][2] She was the chairperson of the Non-formal Education Committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and was a member of the National Literacy Mission.
[4] Chitra Naik was born on 15 July 1918 at Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra[5] and graduated in arts with honours.
[10] She served as the director of IIE and under her leadership, the institution set up training centres for women in the disciplines of home nursing, first aid, maternal and child care, sanitation and nutrition.
[6] She also established a Children's Home (Bal Bhavan) and a training centre for social workers, organised education camps on family planning for women and conducted a project study on Mobilising Gram Panchayats for Rural Development.
[7] The treatment could not save her and she died on Christmas Eve, 2010, at the age of 92, at Pune, survived by her niece, Aruna Giri.