Transform Rural India Foundation Programme Officer Reviews

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TRI approach overlay idealistic and disconnected from the practical realities of development work. Transforming rural communities requires more than just passion and adventure it demand clear strategies, accountability and measurable result. The claim of a non-hierarchical, delibrative decision-making process may sound appealing, but in practice, such systems often leads to confusion, inefficiency and power struggles. Lofty ideals like "community-first sprit" and "absolute transparency" are meaning less without concrete mechanisms to ensure they translate into actionable impact. Professionals are not drawn by vague promises of independence or 'good packages'. they seek clarity, structure and tangible outcomes. The vision of TRI risks promoting chaos and frustration rather than delivering real changes....Read More

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I would not recommend this organisation as a workplace. Leadership are full of biases, favouritism and mismanagement.

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Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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TRI is an organization having a fascinating and challenging vision to design solutions to transform quality life experiences in bottom villages where people are living with facilities decades behind. As per several data there are around one lakh such villages. There three a) Approach Community Action Lab (where TRI design, try and test solutions by direct engagement with Community and their local institutions like CLF-VO-SHG, Local Governance system like Panchayats & Local Administrations ie Different Departments ) b) Public Policy in Action : supporting Central & State Government departments to develop & implements solutions so that support services can bring positive transformative changes in Life and livelihoods of Common Populations c) Bending Market for Flourishing localities: to foster sustainable and equitable market system that empower rural communities. That's a mammoth Task to do and requires a massive energy & passions of development professionals as its not like simple project delivery, like getting sum fund and executing xyz activities. Till our independence, (and before that also) as nation we are suffering various development defects and trying turning that reality is tough but adventurous journey for any professionals. A mountaineers can dare to try to climb the Everest and rocks are for others... I feel that, if any one wants thrill of adventures as development sector than TRI is the best place for them, any professional can grow themselves as finest development Professional, if they wants. The organization provide independence to any professionals to try and test their own ideas, and approach, with a feeling of equality and comradely spirits. Only condition is community first spirit is prevailed here. Any one within the organization are equally empowered in decision making as of Joint Managing Directors, Directors , Associate Directors ... only thing are the basic principals and logic like community is in the center, Transparency in basic social & financial integrity. The organization believes in absolute financial & social integrity. It may be frustrating for those who are in the sector merely for wage earning but can be exciting journey for any development professionals who want to transform life & livelihood of people who are lacking opportunities, and suffering poor quality of life. The also have good packages for quality of professionals....Read More

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Its quiet difficult for new people to understand and practice non hierarchical system and deliberative decision making process as its rarely exists...

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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People who leave are their best employees and they leave because their integrity and professionalism, these guys are wasting money of their funders and specially taking money for women and treating women like garbage, good place to work for men and no women should join this place.

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I can go on and on about the worst ever culture and leadership I’ve been part of, they made me relocate giving a salary change of some 10% hike, but in reality you’ve to spend your own money for everything. They make you travel in bus and force to get bike to travel like sales job from here and there. Worst part is leadership, their Associate Directors and old employees like Ex-PRADAN are running the organization like this family business, no policy for performance so they just promote and support their favorite people. The company is full of insecure leadership at even state level, they don’t want people to come ahead and the organization keep promoting them as thought leaders but they just copy and paste different theories from other sources. I worked both in UP and MP, in UP they’ve a state lead who has no professional approach and talks to you threatening like do the job or seek new opportunity. His words, “If you don’t do it then be ready to see new opportunities”, even for leave he says I only take leave in Muharram and never, denying leave like it’s his personal property. Their government engagement is based on letter and giving clerical support, they just copy paste government data and show we did it to funders. Women are treated like shit, no sensitivity for gender needs, I was humiliated so often and words which were so unprofessional echo in my ears. Forced to transfer so many times, they also kept humiliating me for my identity. Very toxic place, people who are nice leave as soon as they get better opportunities. People who are sweet forget to speak here, very undemocratic place to work as they take decision and force you to follow it or you’ll have to leave. Their previous lead kept the fabric well but he was forced to national team and since then there is no lead or no conversation. They force you to travel to lucknow and do useless meetings, when asked for support from government lead then told that they do different work, personal staff members of bureaucrats using Bill and Melinda Gates Fund and their work and imapct is zero. In no CLF there’s any book and employees just and click pictures with government staff to show that they are working but it’s just fake marketing. In human way of conversation with youth and new employees as if all of us are subscribed to their personal and political views. Like lead glorifying Hamas terrorists and justifying violence. Same culture in MP also, I left UP because of toxic culture and same was there in MP. Here also my position was changed frequently and transferred randomly. Funding was taken back and they couldn't acquire new funds....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.

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good for freshers.

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No guidance or mentoring from supervisors, Visioning is not clear, spend more money to networking and showcase work rather then community engagement and program implementation.

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Nothing, nothing much to say

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Everything, Not much to say

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Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Nothing much, it is just a below average organisation. Not recommended.

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Poor leadership, blame game by the supervisor. No clarity about job responsibilities.

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Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Flexibility of work and leadership.

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Nothing to dislike. A very unique organisation.

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Nothing. an average CSO.

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No program clarity. No field work only documentation

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Unfortunately, my experience with the organisation was disappointing due to weak HR policies, poor administration, poor programmatic understanding, and a politically charged environment.

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During my tenure with the organisation, I supported the PPIA but faced significant challenges due to poor leadership and lack of direction. The organisation lacked the strategic roadmap, clear pathways or defined health targets. to work towards. Recently, organisation has decided to focus on "Neighbourhood of care" initiative. However, this initiative too lacks a clear roadmap or strategy for field intervention, even after a year of its introduction. There has been no clarity provided on how to operationalise this vision, and the suggestions from the team members have not been adequately considered or acknowledged. The leadership particularly the Health lead, has struggled to provide programatic direction or inspires the team effectively. unfortunately this has led a significant attrition of talented professionals, who found it challenging to work under such circumstances. these issues have severely hindered the organisation's ability to achieve the goals in the health domain. The Organisation's strategy document outlines health indicatiors that do not align with its interventions, raising questions about the purpose and coherence of the document. this misalingenment is not limited to health but extends to other domain as well. As a professional, it's disheartening to misuse of funders' resources on documentation of government initiatives and clerical tasks of government agencies, rather than driving meaningful impact....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Closely Working with the government and make effective govt prog and scheme benefits for the rural community is great. Idea is good that's why people attracts to work, but f**k the people minds and creating pressure situation and hawabazi.

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Chhattisgarh State Leadership is run by a Family. This is another BSP & Congress Party where family culture get promoted. They think they are leaders - Self claimed. They speak shits. Initial stage it was supporting, but power ka nasha sar par had chuka hai... and only giving Gyan. Lakhpati Banyaenge Gyan Dekar Sirf. Organization modus operand is like this........ "TRi is knowledge partner .... Ground pe Kaam Karo toh bolega, We are their to facilitate the process, Facilitate karo toh bolega where is your effort on ground, how many people you have met drive changes in the people's life." He is making fool the government and Minister as well. they make fool to their junior colleagues, bureaucrats and now Ministers as well. Mr. Self Claimed Leader think people don't understand his Bluffbaji. Now CG State is driving in wrong hand, he doesn't want to promote parallel leader because of his insecurity to lose driving position. Now he started to disrespect publicly his colleague also. Leadership means you hold hand of ur colleague and support to drive if he stucks somewhere not demean publicly. I Left this place cuze of ambiguity of work and their Theory of Change's achievement. At the end of Story, completely shit space to work....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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If I have to tell you honestly, then it is nothing. There is a weird hostility that goes in the environment where we try to fake of being very transparent, being very non-hierarchical, being very positive and having a lot of human approach, but those are all just to show to the world and Make people feel that organisers or say the founders are nice, but just below their nose with their own signature orders are passed for employees to fire. They do not agree to any of the demands which people who are close to the two MD are making, and I was one of the victim of such an incident where I was , made to resign forcefully just because I disagree with certain points which were professionally wrong and jokes were made on those things and I was also threatened to be removed from job continuously just because I was a woman with strong opinion. The joke is that they talk about woman and do , fake gender trainings for all their employee, but their employees are very anti-women which Is visible in the process they follow, and specially, since I have worked in UP, I have seen how casteist and sexist jokes are made by their state lead and he laughs on them as if no one is going to report that to anyone. In fact, his own wife is HR there so reporting does not make any sense as he gets to know all the information which I have already experience twice when I had applied for leave through HR and then it came to, the notice of the reporting manager even though it was confidential. Their lack of professionalism is visible. Whenever you share something, they quickly gossip about it and the gossip is happening in every state very openly and it happens if you are playing politics and you have immunity of the two MD ....Read More

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I will list down the dislikes, first is there leave policy? What a joke when you take a leave on Friday and then take a leave on Monday? You have to actually give away four days of your leave and that’s very cruel and no organisation follows such thing. Next is the transfer policy where they pick people from one place and throw people at another place without considering their family or their consent, and the state leads openly says that there is no guarantee that you will continue in the organisation. If you do not shift to that location, and he purposely gives you a hard location as he wants to enjoy authority and autonomy while he should not at all be involved in that process, but his own wife is HR, so they both decide who will go where, and who will do what dictating a whole authority in the organisation. Organisation does not have any future plan, but just that they want to copy government data and they are into government so deeply that they find it very fascinating to work with government and they just keep copying their data and fool the government employees as well at the same time, they fool their Investors or rather funders because they are giving fake data and without any scope of any scrutiny. They so that we have done this capacity building and that capacity building in reality. There work is limited to buttering the government employees and just using the ground caste for mobilising the crowd. I also want to highlight how my own experience changed over the time. As when I got there. First, I felt there is no work or less work, but gradually I realise that whenever there is work, it is always passed on from one people to another and the culture is of no ownership instead of, having task divided the people there on ground play a lot of politics and worst is the senior leadership who practice openly favourite and support their own people. Would highly recommend not to join such a organisation where you will feel like you have come to a jail and so toxic people that you will start hating working and being in social sector because they are not doing anything that social sector does rather they are doing just buttering the government employees and And you have to also do that with no dignity and have to lose all self-respect to continuously keep the government employees happy. All they do from state level where one person is buttering senior I officer to other IAS officers at state level to district level fellows and managers who are buttering district collect and DM....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.

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The good thing about the company is that they simply copy government data and present it as their own work. They consistently replicate models from other organizations and claim them as original. The people working there are mostly below average, and talented individuals rarely join. Even if they do, they tend to leave within six months due to the lack of opportunities for growth and improvement. If you’re someone who’s good at clerical tasks, has no career ambitions, and are lucky enough to get a decent posting that suits your job role, they essentially pay you to copy government data and schemes....Read More

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The company is run by sycophants of the MDs, who are either from PMRDF or Pradhan, and they are biased towards these groups. The associate directors treat the company like their personal business, enjoying immunity from the MDs, who are blinded by constant flattery and exaggerated reports of work. In reality, these directors are middle-aged individuals who lack the wisdom or energy to understand the world, running the company as their personal property by transferring employees to undesirable locations to force them to quit. Women are treated inhumanely, not considered for growth, yet the company still hires more women to appease their funders. The funders, in turn, are also blind, providing large sums of money, which is primarily spent on marketing the work that is actually done by the government. There is no real plan or strategy to implement any meaningful projects; instead, endless meetings are held, discussing values and culture in what is actually a toxic work environment. There is no support for employees, no promotion or growth unless you're close to the MD. People come for the salary but remain stuck at the same level for 3-4 years with only inflation-adjusted 5% raises. The company lacks a proper promotion or transfer policy, moving employees around arbitrarily without considering professionalism or family circumstances. For example, women are transferred to unsafe locations without considering the demands of the job or travel requirements. The organization has no coherent culture, strategy, or framework, yet it continues to hire consultants to create fancy reports. They even hired a foreign communications director to project an image of being a high-level NGO, but in reality, none of the leadership has any real intellect, and the associate directors dictate the company based on their own rules, standards, and moods, making it feel like a privately-run entity. The worst part is that an employee attempted suicide, and another died by suicide, but the company suppressed the news and threatened employees not to speak about it, claiming it wasn’t related to the organization. However, the first employee attempted suicide after being repeatedly denied leave by someone leading operations in Uttar Pradesh, who runs the company like his personal property, constantly jeopardizing job security. This person also forced two women to quit—one who was two months pregnant and about to apply for maternity leave, and another who disagreed with his working style and unreasonable demands for working outside office hours. He even brought his wife into the organization. Another team lead in the government vertical operates through personal flattery of bureaucrats, forcing employees to perform clerical tasks in government offices. There is no strategy in the government vertical, just constant appeasement of bureaucrats. I urge everyone to consider multiple factors before joining this organization. The funders have no idea that the work being presented as the company’s own is actually the government's, and large amounts of money are being wasted....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, Travel Within City.

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Nothing is good with this organisation. I accidentally joined this organisation but very soon I realised that TRIF is not a place for true development professionals and I left the organisation.

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TRIF running by two ex PRADANs Anish and Anirban who have good salesman skills to convince funders, but actually they increase TRIF corpus from funders money, not a single result seen is the field which is actually done by TRIF. they just tried to capture NRLM and Panchayat successful models and showcase these models with different lenses highlighted women leadership, community engagement in documents and making fool to Govt. and funders. in every workshops/meetings they parroting dialogs to some rural women and told them to speak in meetings but nothing is happening in actual. TRIF organisation in hijacked by some associate directors who always tried to manipulate the things and to save their position in organisation they always try that no other staff can stay here. Join TRIF is worst decision of my carrier. senior manager always told the new employees that TRIF is flat organisation but actually TRIF follow top to bottom approach....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Innovative model of working with multi thematic model

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Involvement in all departments makes our goals unclear. Also creates a huge work load when all thematic leads started asking their thematic progress.

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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I like the people working here and the support they provide to each other emotionally and professionally

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Leadership, it’s not at all good, they don’t promote people on basis of performance. There is no performance indicators. You can be judged anytime for anything even if it doesn’t suppose to be your job. So all in all, it’s bad work culture.

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There is no hierarchy system

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The HR policy is very poor, incompetent department.