Contact details
Email (official) : yatindestel [at] iitb dot ac dot in
Email (personal) : yatindestel [at] gmail dot com
Mobile : +91 87 79 65 80 57
Address (lab) : 2nd floor AMAT building, Near Powerhouse, Hillside road, IIT Bombay, 400076
Experience
I am a co-leader of EvalYouth Asia, co-founder and co-leader of EvalYouth India.
Before starting my PhD, i worked as a development professional in different capacities. A short description of the two positions i held in five the years since my MTech in Technology and Development, also from CTARA, follows.
Project Manager, TDSC @ CTARA IIT Bombay
June 2016 - December 2017
Technology and Development Solutions Cell is a project under CTARA which provides consultancy services to NGOs and government agencies based on internally developed protocols. My responsibility was to manage the team of project engineers and researchers working there, interact with client, take new project proposals forward, interact with IITB admin, documentation, etc. The typical projects done by the cell were audits and third party evaluations of small projects.
Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellow
District Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh July 2012 - September 2015
As a Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellow, i was posted in Narayanpur District of Bastar Division, Chhattisgarh, where i worked closely with the District Collector and Chief Executive Officer, Zila Panchayat for three years on various flagship schemes of the central government and helped in day to day running and trouble-shooting across various departments. This was the time which first put monitoring and evaluation of development programs on my radar. Most of my experience of government systems is drawn from this time on field, working with al three levels of decentralised Panchayati Raj Institutes and district level administration across multiple departments.