[7][8][9][10] Mukta Dutta Tomar graduated from the University of Calcutta.

She is married to Ashok Tomar, who is an Indian Foreign Service officer[6] of the 1978 batch.

[5] She has served in Indian missions at Madrid, Kathmandu, Paris and Yangon.

She has served at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations at New York.

[12] She also functioned as the Consul General of India in Chicago[13] from August 2010 to July 2013.