PATHANAMTHITTA: Joycee would laugh if anyone calls her 'nellu' (paddy) at the Pathanamthitta principal agriculture office. Whereas Jhansi, her twin sister, would laugh if anyone calls her 'pachakkari' (vegetable). While Joycee is the Deputy Director of Extension and Training, Jhansi is the Deputy Director of Horticulture. Their colleagues affectionately call them 'nellu' and 'pachakkari' for telling identical twins apart. Both of them are interested in agriculture. Joycee is interested in paddy cultivation and Jhansi in vegetables.

Both of them have been made to sit away from each other so that employees and others distinguish between them. Both of them studied together from Pathanamthitta Nannuvakkad school to MSc Agriculture. They both won the entrance exam to B.Sc Agricultural Science at Allahabad Agricultural University.

Both Joycee and Jhansi became agriculture officers in 1992. Joycee started her career at Nileshwaram agricultural office in Kasaragod Nileswaram and Jhansi in Koduvally in Kozhikode. Later, they became Agriculture Officers in Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts. The twins came to Pathanamthitta as Deputy Directors in 2021. They will retire in December this year.

These twins are the youngest of six children of freedom fighter KC Koshi and Eliamma.