Tanusree Debbarma is the first woman Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Tripura, India.
[1] She secured fourth place in the civil service examination in the ST category in 2006.
[citation needed] She studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and received an offer from a multi-national IT firm but turned it down to prepare for the Civil Services Examination IAS exam.
[2] She now holds the additional posts of Secretary of Industries and Commerce (Information and Technology) and member of Tripura Sales Tax Tribunal and VAT Tribunal in the state administration of Tripura.
[3] During the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown, she was one of the officials from the Government of Tripura engaged in bringing back people stranded in other states.