[1][3] At Lata Thakur's request, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the Lahaul and Spiti valleys in June 1972.

[8] Lata Thakur brought about the provision of supplying fuelwood at subsidized rates and without transportation charges to all locals of the remote Spiti valley for the winter.

The claims were that she had talked to Indira Gandhi of this need on one of the PM's visits to the Lahaul and Spiti district during Lata's tenure as MLA, and that the chain of events set-off by this discussion had materialised several decades later in the form of the Atal Tunnel.

Nihal Chand served on the Punjab Tribes Advisory Council until 1966, when Lahaul was merged into the emerging state of Himachal Pradesh.

[9] Lata Thakur was killed in a car accident near Pandoh (in Mandi district) on 14 December 1976, at the age of 35.