[3] The background to Pant’s social activism and agitation politics took new heights during 1984 when as a leader of Uttarakhand Shangarsh Vahini she led the famous Nasha Nahi Rojgar Do movement in Kumaon, during which she agitated and fasted for 11 days only to break it when erstwhile UP government ordered a complete ban of liquor in rural area of Kumaon.

In 1990 Pant, Uma Bhatt, Sheela Rajwar and Basanti Pathak co founded the region’s first magazine focusing on women and social issues, Uttara, which means "of the north.

In 1994, after the infamous Muzzafarnagar Kand, Pant led from the front and united women from all the regions of the area to come together to form even a larger organization demanding separate statehood called Uttarakhand Mahila Manch (UMM).

Pant has spoken out for older women in her state, noting that in 2014, chief minister, Harish Rawat, has finally decided to pursue a food security program to help the elderly.

[9] She has helped organize protests and "initiated the movement" to raise awareness of the issue surround private schools in Uttarakhand.