In 2019 she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar by the President of India on International Women's Day having arranged the weddings of 3,500 couples who might otherwise have remained single because they could not afford a traditional grand wedding and dowry.

[2] That year it was announced that the Banarsi Das Gupta Foundation was to be created.

[5] The foundation has been addressing the problem of marriage which traditionally in India has been a grand affair involving expensive arrangements and the exchange of a dowry.

The initial batch of 250 in Panchkula was so successful that the regional government decided to give each couple a grant of $R11,000.

The citation noted that she had arranged over 3,500 weddings for the underprivileged without regard to race, religion or colour.