[1] She was promoted to cabinet rank in 1989 and headed mines and geology and the food and civil supplies departments.
She represented the Khunti constituency of Jharkhand and was a member of the Indian National Congress.
Later she was married to Shri Nottrot Kerketta on 28 Dec. 1970 and had three sons and two daughters named Roshan, Praween, Naveen, Sandhya and Asha.
[1] Kerketta had been staying with her eldest son Roshan Kumar Surin and had not been keeping well for the last few weeks.
She suffered a heart attack at noon and was rushed to the nearby Raj Hospital by her family, where efforts to save her failed.