Ar. Punita J. Mehta is a leading practicing architect from Baroda from last 27 years. She has been awarded President’s Scholarship, University of Canberra, Australia in 2000. She always has interest in participating seminars, paper reading, lectures, talks which belongs to architecture field. She has also published two journals in architectural design issues. She is working on the structure and content of a skill based training program for women in the building industry with “Olakh” as a means of empowering women