Career
She was also the president of Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh, an organization of the Indian Gorkhas till 2012. Dil Kumari Bhandari was born on 14 May 1949 in the village of Bara Puttabong in Darjeeling district, India. She came from a highly cultured and traditional Rai family.
She has been constantly working for the cause of Nepali-speaking people, her most notable contribution being the inclusion of the Nepali language in the Eight Schedule of the Indian constitution.