[1][2] She received her primary and secondary schooling in Bhutan and earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
In January 2006 she was appointed as a commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan, an autonomous body which was established in the same year.
During her tenure in civil service she represented technical and gender issues at national, regional and international forums.
[7] In 2012, she resigned from the UN and joined the newly formed political party, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT).
The party elected her to head the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, making her the first woman minister in Bhutan.