PVD India TeamPragati Pandey-Narwade
Co-Founder & Director, PVD India
Veterinary Diagnostics Leadership, Laboratory Network Management & Quality Assurance
Ex-Research Associate, ICAR-CICR | Former District Project Coordinator, HLL Lifecare Ltd
About Dr. Pandey-Narwade
Pragati Pandey-Narwade is the co-founder and director of PVD India — the country's first doorstep multi-species veterinary diagnostic service. Her journey began in the research laboratories of ICAR-CICR (Central Institute for Cotton Research), where she served as a Research Associate in microbiology, sharpening her scientific instincts and deepening her understanding of India's agricultural ecosystem.
The turning point came during her tenure as District Project Coordinator at HLL Lifecare Ltd, where she witnessed firsthand the stark diagnostic void in rural India — critically for the livestock that millions of farming families stake their entire livelihoods on. That moment of reckoning ignited a mission that would become PVD India.
Pragati's leadership has been transformational — turning a bold, unconventional idea into India's first and only doorstep multi-species veterinary diagnostic network. Her rare combination of scientific precision, field empathy, and entrepreneurial courage has built a platform where veterinary science meets real-world need at the farm gate.
Services & Specialisations
- Laboratory partnership development and quality oversight
- Herd health monitoring programme design
- Quality assurance framework for all diagnostic reports
- Rural cooperative and farmer engagement
- Partner lab accreditation and standards management
- Scientific advisory for new diagnostic service development
Why PVD India Partnered with Pragati Pandey-Narwade
Pragati personally leads PVD's laboratory partnerships, champions quality assurance across every test report, and drives the scientific rigour that makes PVD's results trusted by farmers, veterinarians, and institutions alike. She regularly accompanies the field team to understand farmer challenges firsthand.
Coverage Area
Pan-India (headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra)
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Diagnostic Expertise — Pragati Pandey-Narwade
Leading PVD India’s diagnostic quality framework
As co-founder and director, Pragati Pandey-Narwade is responsible for the scientific backbone of PVD India — the quality assurance framework that governs how every sample is collected, transported, processed and reported. Her background as a Research Associate in microbiology at ICAR-CICR gives her a deep, first-principles understanding of what can go wrong between the farm gate and the final report, and how to design systems that prevent it.
Under her leadership, PVD treats quality not as a final check but as a discipline embedded in every step: standardised collection protocols, cold-chain transport, partner-lab accreditation, and mandatory specialist review before any result is released. This is what allows a report generated from a sample collected in rural Maharashtra to carry the same reliability standards PVD applies to every sample, regardless of where it is collected.
From rural diagnostic gaps to a national network
Pragati’s tenure as District Project Coordinator at HLL Lifecare Ltd exposed her to the stark reality of rural India’s diagnostic void — particularly for the livestock on which millions of farming families depend. That experience became the founding insight behind PVD: the problem was not a shortage of laboratories in cities, but the absence of a reliable way to bring testing to the animals themselves.
She has since built PVD’s laboratory partnership network, leading the laboratory partnerships with Chaitanya Laboratory and Verity Vet Laboratories that give PVD its specialist depth across pathology, microbiology and molecular diagnostics.
Farmer engagement and field empathy
A distinguishing feature of Pragati’s leadership is that she regularly accompanies the field team to understand farmer challenges firsthand. This keeps PVD’s service design grounded in the realities of rural animal husbandry — practical collection logistics, affordable herd-health packages, and reports that farmers and their veterinarians can actually act on. Her work bridges advanced veterinary science and grassroots need at the farm gate.
Why this matters for your diagnostics
When you receive a PVD report, the quality systems Pragati designed are the reason you can trust it. From the anticoagulant ratio in the collection bag to the specialist who signs the final result, these safeguards exist to protect the accuracy of the answer you depend on — whether you are a single pet owner or a cooperative managing a large dairy herd.
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Doorstep Diagnostics in Pune
Booking Veterinary Diagnostics Leadership Testing with Pragati Pandey-Narwade
If you are in Pune or the surrounding region and need veterinary diagnostics leadership for your animal, PVD India makes it simple. Working with Pragati Pandey-Narwade (Co-Founder & Director, PVD India), PVD brings professional, specialist-reviewed diagnostics directly to your farm, clinic or home — so you never have to transport a sick or stressed animal to a distant laboratory. Here is exactly how it works and what to expect.
How to book a test in Pune
Booking takes minutes. Call or WhatsApp PVD on 9082245254, or use the contact form, and tell us the animal, the species and the test you need — or simply describe the symptoms and our team will advise on the right diagnostics. We confirm a convenient collection slot, dispatch a trained technician to your location, and keep you updated until your report arrives. For clients in and around Pune, Pragati and the PVD field team coordinate collection so that sample quality is protected from the very first step.
Areas served around Pune
Pragati Pandey-Narwade supports PVD diagnostics across Pan-India (headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra). Within the core service area, doorstep sample collection is designed to be fast and convenient, and for locations further afield PVD operates a courier-based pickup model so that distance never prevents access to quality testing. Wherever you are in the region, samples are transported under cold-chain conditions to PVD's partner laboratories for processing.
What to expect from your veterinary diagnostics leadership report
Every sample collected is processed at a partner laboratory — Chaitanya Laboratory or Verity Vet Laboratories — and reviewed by a qualified specialist before the report is released; no result leaves without expert sign-off. Most clinical pathology and molecular results are delivered within 24 to 48 hours via WhatsApp and email, with histopathology taking 5 to 7 days. Free follow-up is included, so you and your veterinarian can discuss the findings and decide on the right course of action with confidence.
Why a local PVD partner matters
Diagnostics work best when the person collecting the sample is trusted and close at hand. As a PVD partner in Pune, Pragati combines local presence and marathi, hindi, english language communication with the full backing of PVD's laboratory network and specialist team. That means you get the convenience and trust of a local professional together with the scientific rigour of an IVRI grant-supported diagnostic service — the best of both worlds for your animal's health.
Transparent pricing and accessible diagnostics
PVD keeps veterinary diagnostics affordable for both rural and urban clients, with clear pricing and no hidden charges — doorstep sample collection within the core service area carries no pickup fee, and herd-health packages are priced to make proactive screening realistic for ordinary farmers. There is no minimum order value, so whether you need a single test for one pet or comprehensive screening for an entire herd, Pragati and the PVD team can help. Affordable, accessible diagnostics are central to PVD's mission of ensuring no animal goes undiagnosed simply because quality testing was out of reach in Pune or its surrounding region.
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Need a Diagnostic Test in Pune?
Contact PVD India to arrange sample collection with Pandey-Narwade or another PVD partner in your area.