Under his leadership, Amravati District stood first in 1990/91 in Maharashtra for achieving 20 point economic program which included contracting homes for rural homeless and providing self employment opportunities to the poor.
[5] From 1993 to 1995, Pardeshi represented the Government of Maharashtra in Washington and successfully negotiated a $335 million loan from the World Bank for post-earthquake reconstruction.
Pardeshi supervised the program and budget, and reconstructed 30 villages, 110,000 houses and large infrastructure such as water supply and roads.
Afterwards, Pardeshi continued to work in the Indian Administrative Services as District Collector in Latur, Municipal Commissioner in Pune and Secretary to Chief Minister in Maharashtra.
While serving as Municipal commissioner of PCMC, Pune, Pardeshi oversaw a budget of US$50 million and staff of over 20,000 personnel and worked on infrastructure development, public health, water supply, education and town-planning.
While working as a consultant, Pardeshi provided equitable access to displaced by highway construction including womenheaded households with livelihood opportunities through.
He also worked closely with organisation of Arab states to promote policies to integrate climate risk mitigation and disaster management.
[8] In October 2010, Pardeshi left his role as the Chief of Regional Office of UNISDR to rejoin the IAS as Divisional Commissioner in Amravati.
Within these roles, Pardeshi played a key role in steering critical reforms to change economic institutions to be aligned to efficient growth, liberalising labour and land markets to ensure ease of doing business and efficient allocation of resource,[13] decentralizing the transfer powers to local administrative units.
Pardeshi also helped set up the Chief Minister War Room Office,[14] overlooking key Mumbai metro, transportation, airport and solar energy infrastructure projects within the state, with a capital expenditure of over US$22 billion.
[15] Within the public health sector, Pardeshi contributed towards development of cashless insurance scheme, and implemented the expansion of the Chief Ministers Medical Assistance Trust Fund.
He achieved a 5 times increase in testing within a month and pioneered an advanced analytics method to identify and contain high intensity zones.
In May 2020, Pardeshi left his position as Municipal Commissioner and is currently working at UNITAR as the Global Programme Coordinator for the Defeat-NCD Partnership.