Rashmi is a seasoned development professional with nearly two decades of multidisciplinary leadership experience across Women & Child Development, WASH, adolescent empowerment, education and social behaviour change communication (SBCC). She has led large-scale programmes, driven evidence-based policy development, strengthened governance systems, and contributed to complex state-wide implementation strategies across Bihar and Jharkhand.
Her career spans national and state-level engagements with multilateral agencies, including UNICEF, Global Sanitation Fund, Tata Trusts and Jagran organizations, where she delivered impactful initiatives focused on sanitation, adolescent health, community behaviour transformation, and women-centric development. She combines technical depth in programme execution with policy-driven development leadership, enabling system-level change and sustainable institutional strengthening in the social sector. She successfully institutionalised innovative programme delivery models, community mobilisation frameworks, and behaviour change mechanisms that improved service delivery and outreach across marginalized groups.
Rashmi’s professional experience spans multiple districts across Bihar and Jharkhand, where she has collaborated closely with state departments, the Social Welfare Department, Health department and Education Department while also working with partner NGOs, civil society organisations and youth networks. She has consistently demonstrated expertise in program scaling, implementation planning, monitoring, and documentation, including donor reporting and MIS support.
She played significant roles in numerous initiatives under UNICEF and Tata Trusts, including the roll-out of adolescent SBCC interventions, Menstrual Hygiene Management programmes, Open Defecation Free campaigns, and sanitation action plans under the Swachh Bharat Mission. She has successfully led community-based interventions that strengthened adolescent leadership, social awareness, sanitation practices and women-centric inclusion models. Over the years, she has also pioneered innovative models of life-skill education, adolescent engagement, and behaviour transformation contributing to measurable improvements in women and child development outcomes in Bihar.
Rashmi currently serves as the Women and Child Development Sector Expert with the State Support Mission, NITI Aayog (Bihar), where she leads advocacy with the Department of Social Welfare (Women and Child Development), contributes to long-term sectoral visioning, and drives strategic planning for developing future-ready programmes. She has contributed to the formulation of the Vision Document 2047 for the WCD sector, supporting policy reform, system strengthening and governance improvement.
Her educational qualifications include a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource & Administration from TISS Mumbai, a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development, and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce. She has also completed multiple high-value professional certifications including SBC Training of Trainers, WASH promotion, MHM interventions, and other thematic specialisations.
Rashmi is widely recognised for her commitment to women’s empowerment, adolescent development and sanitation reform, and for her ability to design, manage and operationalise high-impact developmental interventions through evidence-based planning and collaborative implementation. By combining policy-driven development experience with hands-on programme leadership, she brings a unique capability to conceptualise, strengthen and scale impact-driven initiatives that uplift women, children and adolescent communities across Bihar.