Latika Talukder, BA and B.Ed, was the founding Principal of the Moanoghar Residential School. She joined the school on 1 January 1982, when it officially started. Before joining the Moanoghar Residential School, she served as the Assistant Headmistress and later Headmistress at Kamalchari Junior High School in Khagrachari district for 8 years from 1974 to 1981. In 1982, at the invitation of Ven. Bimal Tishya Mahathera and Ven. Prajnananda Mahathera – both were the founding members of Moanoghar, she assumed the position of Principal at the Moanoghar Residential School. She served here for 25 years until she retired on 9 January 2007. He had an outstanding contribution in the making of the Moanoghar Residential School as one of the top institutions in the CHT region.