She was born in Kishtwar a small town in Kashmir. She married Dunichand Mehta who was the Wazir Wazzarat, of Muzaffarabad, now in P.O.K. In 1947, as India found her freedom, a tragedy, in the raid on Kashmir, Dunichand Mehta was shot dead while on duty, and Krishna and her young children were taken to multiple refugee camps. Krishna, undaunted, unbroken in spirit, rose even to this occasion, and refusing to lose herself in self-pity, took upon herself the task of rehabilitating the suffering women and children at the camps in POK. It was at Kurukshetra that Krishna met Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India. Seeing Krishna’s dedication to the human cause and her personal commitment to her work, Jawaharlal invited Krishna to join him at Delhi.
With Pandit Nehru’s help and support, Krishna established Shri Gandhi Sewa Sadan and the Khadi Gramudyog Sangh. Both these institutions helped thousands of families to become Self-sufficient and earn money in dignity. She was a worker with a personal vision and commitment. She had personally experienced suffering and this was born the zeal to work for the alleviation of poverty: She wanted to do something positive for the downtrodden and the poor, to make them self-reliant and independent. She trained, organized and led them towards self-reliance and she realized the importance of education which was a powerful tool for social and personal transformation. Her formula: learn, work, grow. Krishna Mehta was nominated to the Lok Sabha, as the first woman Member of Parliament from Kashmir. This helped her to develop her native place.
She was instrumental in bringing the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to Kishtwar and acquainting her with the problems of the area. Krishna Mehta always had an innate urge for spiritual life. She wrote her autobiographical accounts, “KASMIR PAR HAMLA in Kashmir”, in Hindi which was translated in English, Urdu, Gujrati and other languages. It is a heartrending account of the horrors she experienced during the invasion of Kashmir. Krishna Mehta lived a rich and fulfilled life. She passed away on October 20, 1993, at the age of eighty. Her passions and vision remains vibrant through the on-going work at the Institution she founded.