Leaving Pala at the age of 16 to become a nun later she gave up her habit to work for the tribal population in the midlands of India. Her inspiring speeches
in a language that reaches out to her audience, her satyagrahas and campaigns to press local authorities to open schools and her efforts to empower almost forgotten
villages in interior and tribal Madhya Pradesh emphasise how Daya Bai has improved the life of the tribals. She had been associated with Narmada Bachao Andolan and
the Chengara agitation, apart from her solo struggles representing the forest dwellers and villagers in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal.
She had also lent her services to the common folk in Bangladesh during the war there. Daya Bai, who practises the theology of liberation, has settled down among the
Gonds of Chhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh. She had set up a school in the Barul village Whenever Daya Bai goes she takes the opportunity to help the village
people and this mission continues form one vilage to another village. Daya Bai teaches each village she visits; how to take care of itself and then moves on to the next village, which makes her different from many other so-called social workers She started the Swayam Sahayatha Group in the late 90s,as a tool for the poverty eradication. It earned her the wrath of the middlemen,the money lenders and village chief. She asked lady officers, on the bank to use their position for the uplift of the downtrodden and the distressed poor
We were lucky enough to hear the words of her great mind .She said the following
“We have everything put together in the preamble of the constitiution..the spirit , the
direction and the goal. If each one are in personal life,work and together, live this thats
enough.Go ahead imbibing this.
LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU