Transform Rural India Foundation "Salary" Reviews

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Very idealistic “wanna be” organisation, but a failed system set up within culture where there is no proper flow of communication, Operations or even effective and efficient mechanism for resource management. Role is not defined, if defined there’s no management, for 3 years you chase the same thing and end up doing nothing. Largely due to Management support in understanding the needs of lower level employees. Wasting money on hotels and trainings, while without having a proper agenda for meeting or objective of meetings. Very mediocre Managers who don’t know how to work with young and millennials professionals. Management is immune to feedback or any type of criticism. If they have not read the multiple reviews here then they are probably non-deserving to hold the position, if they are reading these reviews and still holding the positions then they are shameless creatures. Ethically also the organisation has fraud culture of promoting people with no competence but good buttering ability on high ranks. Good thing is that their books are prepared by Delloite and they’ve loosen in good funding to burn cash on hefty salary of their own favorites whom other organisations won’t pay anything close to a penny as they are not even good fit to manage tram forget resources ....Read More

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You literally end up doing nothing, as the strategy planned is Ethiopian with no reality to be matched. Obsessed with power and bureaucrats, it’s useless for NGOs to sit in the laps of politicians and bureaucrats, so scared of offending the Babus that they do Yes Yes Sir Sir to government officials. They place people in Government o ffices as clerks, they thinking letter issued for doing work is policy work. They are neither making strategies of policy nor giving influencing suggestions, just doing paper work of government which a computer operator can also do, so joining with vision to do policy work you’ll be disappointed as ending up mere clerk as they have no plans. Dislike the big talks, of non-hierarchy, Job security, work culture and Blah Blah. In reality the leadership specially mid level is so insecure and cowards, they try to control information from each other, doesn’t want to give any freedom to work, work culture is so bad that people are only talking about other employees and bad things about organisation, bitching culture instead of any intellectual talks. You’ll feel like you’re in slums as everyone’s bitching about everyone. Too much gossips. Leadership team doesn’t care about low income employees, neither the management care to increase salaries for them. No performance evaluation means favouritism is given priority and due to that your end up doing same 3 years in same role. They’ve a very mediocre Human Resource as they can manage team and develop culture that’s helping growth or development of people. They keep doing same thing for 3 years, and no change in that geography and for showing change they use government Data. Fake Lakhpati, Fake books of records, kept blaming corruption without any achievements<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. At the end of the day employee is neither growing his salary, intellect and nor his performance</mark>. Just getting salary for doing same thing for years without using brain. If you’re from a good background then it won’t be an organisation where you’ll excel or like to work. Not at all recommended for people who are professional with aspirations. No growth . No learning. Just mentally traumatic culture for people....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves 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 mon ths 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 midd le-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<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. People come for the salary but remain stuck at the same level for 3-4 years with only inflation-adjusted 5% raises</mark>. 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

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

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

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This organisation is a scam, and I strongly warn against joining, Even if they offer a salary hike. You will regret it, big time. Someone needs to expose this to Axis Bank CSR and the Bill gates Foundation to hold their funding, which is based on fabricated and misleading data, speciall y in UP, MP and Jharkhand. They are not consultants; They infiltrate government offices under the guise of partnership and embedded cell. As an NGO, It is unethical and likely illegal to act as the data collector and its validator. Their strategy is simple place, unqualified fellows with no professional ethics to appease government officials, ensuring favourable review while deceiving funds into thinking they are creating impact. One fellow in State office with no consulting background, achieve nothing meaningful, but to do massaging and buttering of officials. Their role devolves into psycho fancy, keeping the government content while serving as me Commission agents, they create workforce largely that come prices of individual with no professional skills or ethic, selecting for their ability to flatter Rather than delivering result. Leadership pretends to uphold values publicly, but privately intimidates and dismiss employees without transparency. Transfers are arbitrary with no policies or framework for performance evaluation, protecting incompetent favourites while alienating real talent. Good employees leave quickly leaving behind a core in efficient individual who are wasting funds money. This organisation thrives on manipulation and if inefficiency and its operations are disservice to both the government and the causes it claims to protect. Avoid them at all cost.. I get suffocating and there was no growth for me, even salary was not increased for so long. Just 5% inflation thing and Directors and Associate Directors take 5 times the salary of fellows doing nothing productive....Read More

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The organisation consistently places unqualified individual in critical roles, particularly in health. Health lead lacks basic knowledge, promotes impractical and harmful practises, and plagiarise data form for sources like neighbourhood care to push unfeasible narrative for India through neighbourhood of CARE copied name. This lack of vision and expertise undermines their health initiative, which needs a, thorough check . In Uttar Pradesh fellows from non-Health background are assigned in Health project and then redirected to unrelated area like livelihood and supporting their CAL block without any plan or without any project timeline. In Madhya Pradesh, also no meaningful consulting document has been handed over to the government and we are placed as fellows, but in reality, we are in clerical roles, duplicating existing government, government work, with funders in explicitly backing their efficiency. The work environment is toxic with no recognition, no Communication and constant contradictory instructions from different and like government officials want something else, PPA lead, wants something else, state head wants something else, and our fellowship managers wants something else so we feel there is no plan or fellowship timeline that is there. Also, their health policy are so negligent towards employees, forcing employees to travel to remote location without proper assessment or fair compensation. The organisation operates without vision, accountability, or ethics, raising serious concern about its purpose and judgement of it funders<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. I feel funders should talk to Employees and get to know the reality that why they are wasting their money on these leadership who take such huge salary and try to control loping employees in their own ways as I saw on the ground, how associates were feeling so helpless and how they were manipulated </mark>....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Nothing good, they want their staff in Government Office as Pimps and commission agents. They place their people in Government office without any plan or agenda setting just based on buttering and getting a letter. But in those office you’re just another clerk.

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Management is lost, they don’t know what they want to do. They pay huge salary to associate directors who are most useless in the company. They don’t come from any recognized universities or from professional experience of working with a reputed organization. If you try to show talent t hey feel insecure. Toxic culture, running organization on mood of Bosses, no transfer policy, no work recognition, no performance assessment, just buttering of people and if your boss feels it’s good, then you’re in good books. Effort and talent are not recognised. Government intervention should be structured and employees should be placed with good positioning instead of just buttering the officer. need to make some policy for transfer and placement, can’t force people to stay away from home. Management has rubbish leave policy as leave taken on Friday and Monday will make even holidays count. Sounds like a British age policy, sounds like authoritative and forced workplace. Stop branding only your high buttering employees and get a real health expert in health and real education specialist in education....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

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

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1. Freedom to experiment at the grassroots. 2. Learn from the community. 3. Good salary for field level job. 4. Getting a gist of development sector issues while actually working on the ground. 5. There are some very dedicated professionals working in the organisation, who are committe d to bringing change in the society. 6. Some seniors(not all) are actually nice and listen to your problem and motivate you....Read More

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1. Not very women friendly. 2. You cannot speak the truth or talk about difficulties you are facing. 3. The organisation has a “yes Sir ” culture. 4. They can randomly ask you to leave. 5. If you have high ethics you will need to compromise on your values otherwise your survival will become difficult. 6. No professionalism, due to wh ich employees often suffer from mental health issues. 7. No growth or learning from the organisations side. 8. Lot of wrong data....Read More

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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

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They pay well and one can get good exposure working with government.

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Zero mentorship or support from manager. Toxic work environment with zero learning. They just mine data from government and present to funders as thier own work. Also some managers are working as commission agents in government tenders and involved in corruption.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

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

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Timely salary

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Work culture, lack of work life balance, no planned structure or line of activities planned for the internship or new joinees.