About PRAGATI

Rural India is central to India's economic future, accounting for 63% of the population and 70% of the workforce. Yet a large share of rural livelihoods remains concentrated in relatively low-productivity agriculture, creating a significant opportunity to shift towards higher-income economic activity.

PRAGATI (Programme for Rural Advancement, Growth and Transformative Initiatives) is a TCF-incubated organisation focused on accelerating economic prosperity in rural India. Its work is centred on two priorities:
- Increasing agricultural incomes by addressing structural constraints across land, inputs, finance, markets, processing and trade.
- Creating scalable non-farm livelihoods by identifying, financing and supporting promising rural enterprises that can generate local jobs.

PRAGATI works with central ministries and state governments to combine policy and economic analysis with hands-on implementation. It identifies high-potential opportunities, partners with relevant government institutions, tests solutions on the ground,



and develops models that governments can ultimately own and replicate.

Role Summary

PRAGATI is working with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) to help shape the next phase of rural development—building on MoRD's robust welfare and infrastructure delivery platform to increasingly enable sustained income growth and rural prosperity. The engagement focuses on three pathways: increasing agricultural incomes, creating non-farm local livelihood opportunities, and enabling skilling for remunerative migration.

The Associate Director – Rural Economic Transformation (MoRD) will lead this engagement and the embedded PMU on a day-to-day basis. This is a senior leadership role combining strategy, policy, government engagement, execution and team leadership.

The role requires someone who can build trusted relationships across levels of government, understand institutional context and decision-making dynamics, and exercise sound judgm

📌 Associate Director: MoRD (Delhi)
🏢 The Convergence Foundation
📍 Delhi