A whole generation is walking into policy. We built the room where it gathers.
Public Policy India is the first, the largest and the most vibrant pan-India community of public policy professionals, students and institutions. Since 2020 it has grown into a network of 150,000+, sector-agnostic and open to all, spread across the country. STRIDE, our youth-policy think tank, sits on top of that community and carries its perspective into research, capacity building and counsel for the institutions shaping public life. What began as a community has become the infrastructure for policy engagement in India.
Why now
The largest young workforce in history. The smallest pipeline into governing it.
India will carry the largest working-age population on earth through the 2030s, and the institutions that shape public life will need far more trained people than the formal pipeline produces. Around 60 postgraduate policy programmes graduate only a few thousand specialists a year,* while government carries millions of vacancies and private demand keeps climbing. Think tanks publish research. Universities credential graduates. Consultancies serve clients. No one in India is in the business of widening the policy talent pipeline at scale, in plain English, for free, in the cities and towns where the talent actually lives.
PPI builds that bridge. STRIDE puts it to work.
*Roughly 60 master's programmes in public policy across India. Diploma, degree, certificate and undergraduate programmes are additional.
The opportunity, in numbers
How it fits together
One community. Three lines of work.
Community Engagement
City chapters across India's largest cities, regular in-person meetups we call Policy Circles, a weekly newsletter that works as a hub for everything to do with policy careers, and Polis, our platform for civic engagement. Open to all, always. This is how we hold the community together.
Inside the community → STRIDECapacity Building
Fellowships, workshops, curricula, tools and databases for people who want to go deeper, from school students to mid-career practitioners. This is where we teach the craft of policy.
See what we build → STRIDEConsulting and Research
Applied research, policy communications and engagement capability for institutions, delivered with a youth lens you will not find elsewhere. This is how a partner reaches young India, and acts on what it learns.
Work with STRIDE →Evidence, not adjectives
What that reach actually does.
150,000+ members, 40+ city chapters
Across India's 25 largest cities, with a 22,000+ reader newsletter and 80,000+ followers across LinkedIn and Instagram. Over half the community sits outside Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
India's first and largest policy community
Pan-India, sector-agnostic and high-trust. Gender-balanced by design at 55.6% women, with 80% under thirty. Everything for the community is open to all.
35+ universities, 130+ in-person engagements
80+ Policy Circles and 50+ university teaching sessions, 130+ in-person engagements across 20+ cities over six years, run with partners across the ecosystem rather than for any single name.
For you to explore
Some of our products and initiatives
Trusted across the ecosystem
Every domain that touches policy in India
A selection of the institutions we work with, from national universities and policy schools to think tanks, foundations, social-impact organisations, companies, embassies and government bodies across India and South Asia.
Public Policy India and STRIDE partners include Takshashila Institution, Swasti, The Better India, Rebounce, Indian School of Development Management, IMPRI (Impact and Policy Research Institute), India House, Cohesion Foundation Trust, Citizens for Public Leadership, Indian School of Public Policy, Public Policy Puzzle, Hertie School, University of Delhi, Beyond the Classroom, O.P. Jindal Global University, Chanakya University, Ashoka University, Crashfree India, Citizens' Foundation for Policy Solutions, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Quest Alliance, Vivekananda International Foundation, Koan Advisory Group, Minerva Impact, Christ (Deemed to be University), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Rishihood University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC), FleishmanHillard, MIT World Peace University, ChangeEngine, Sinceriti, U.S. Mission India, CoinDCX, Catalyst Management Services (CMS), Government of Haryana, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Anant National University, Project DEEP, Brhat, Association for Public Policy Education (APPE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, D Y Patil University, Navi Mumbai, Indian School of Business (ISB), Russian House, CommonHealth, among 75+ partner institutions across India and South Asia.
If your work depends on engaging young Indians who care about policy, this is the front door.
Alongside engaging India's youth on the importance of policymaking and building meaningful careers here, one of PPI's core goals has always been to lend structure to India's fast-growing public policy and social impact space. This is so that partner institutions can engage a high-trust community across the entire ecosystem and accomplish a range of outcomes in a far more streamlined manner. For years, universities, funders, think tanks and mission-driven institutions have worked with PPI for trusted access and with STRIDE for research, communications and capacity building. Tell us what you are trying to move.
About
Who we are
We built the community we wished existed
Public Policy India was founded on a simple belief: policy should be more accessible, to those already working in the field, and just as much to those trying to understand it, enter it and contribute to it.
From a conversation to infrastructure
We set out to create a space where a first-year undergraduate in Guwahati, a researcher in Delhi, a development practitioner in Bengaluru and a policy professional in Nagpur could all participate in the same conversation. Founded on 15 August 2020, Public Policy India has grown into one of the country's largest policy platforms, connecting individuals, institutions and opportunities across India.
What began as a community has become an infrastructure for policy engagement.
A bridge between people and institutions
PPI serves demand on both sides. On one side, hundreds of thousands of young Indians who want guidance, community and opportunity to discover and enter the policy space. On the other, the institutions that shape it: think tanks, consulting firms, governments, foundations and policy schools that want to recruit from, build with, understand and reach this generation.
Community Engagement
City chapters, in-person Policy Circles, the weekly newsletter and Polis, our civic-action platform. The parts that hold the community together, open to everyone.
Explore → Pillar 02Capacity Building
Fellowships, workshops, curricula, tools and databases for people who want to go deeper, from school students to mid-career practitioners.
Explore → Pillar 03Consulting and Research
Applied research, policy communications and institutional engagement, delivered through STRIDE with a youth lens.
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From school student to sector leader
This young cohort of policy enthusiasts as well as professionals is increasingly gaining influence in India's broader governance and impact ecosystem, and it is a trend only on the rise.
Most students never hear that policy is a career until far too late. We get there early. PPI Talks goes into classrooms, and The Policy Post and the Policy Career Navigator put the whole field in a student's hands, so a teenager can see a path long before they have to choose one.
- PPI Talks
- The Policy Post
- Policy Career Navigator
This is where most people find us. Through Policy Circles, our city chapters and PPI Talks on campus, a student in any of 25+ cities can walk into a room full of practitioners, and the career databases turn a first spark of curiosity into an internship or a fellowship.
- Policy Circles
- City chapters
- PPI Talks
- Career databases
- ebooks
The first few years are the hardest. We help people turn interest into craft. Policy Sangam, our flagship fellowship, takes a cohort deep into real policy work, while Policy Circles, The Policy Post, Policy Panchayat and the wider community keep them learning, connected and in the room as they find their footing.
- Policy Sangam
- Policy Circles
- The Policy Post
- Career databases
- ebooks
By now the relationship runs both ways. Practitioners speak, mentor and hire through the community, and PPI Executive, our closed senior network, brings them together at quarterly gatherings in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
- PPI Executive
- Speaking and mentoring
- Quarterly gatherings
Those who have shaped the sector stay close, as advisors, mentors and friends of the work. Many mentor younger members coming up behind them, guide STRIDE's commissioned research, and sit on our Board of Advisors.
- Mentor young professionals
- STRIDE advisory
- Board of Advisors
What STRIDE is
STRIDE, the Strategic Research and Impact Development Enterprise, is a new-age think tank shaping India's youth policy aspirations. It was created as PPI grew and institutions began asking how they could go deeper. Foundations want to reach the community. Universities want to build with it. Governments want to understand it. Think tanks want to collaborate with it. STRIDE brings consulting, research and institutional engagement to the ecosystem PPI had spent years building, across three lines: Research, Consulting and Capacity Building.
One ecosystem, two brands
PPI builds trust. STRIDE translates it into institutional work. Every engagement STRIDE delivers is grounded in the same community that makes PPI credible.
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PPI and STRIDE, working as one
PPI builds trust; STRIDE turns it into institutional work. Together they let a partner convene exactly the people they need to reach, through a community that is high-trust, gender-balanced, sector-agnostic and pan-India, and turn those forums into long-term institutional outcomes. Every STRIDE engagement is grounded in the same community that makes PPI credible.
People behind PPI and STRIDE
Yash Agarwal
Founder
Founder of Public Policy India and STRIDE. He works in global stakeholder engagement and internet governance at ICANN, has taught at several of India's leading universities, and has previously worked with X (then Twitter), Parliament, PRS and Chase Advisors.
Kashish Goyal
Lead, Research and Communications. Co-Founder, STRIDE
A communications and research professional with experience in legislative analysis and social-impact communication. Holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Miranda House, University of Delhi, and works at the intersection of gender, mental health and inclusive development.
Manan Singh
Lead, Partnerships and Programs. Co-Founder, STRIDE
Leads PPI's partnerships and flagship programmes, including Policy Sangam, and builds the institutional relationships that carry the work forward.
Snehaa Rajesh
Lead, Community Engagement and Editorial
Leads community engagement and editorial across PPI, holding the city chapters, monthly Policy Circles and The Policy Post together, and keeping the community active across more than 25 cities.
Guided by leaders across policy, business and social impact
PPI's Board of Advisors brings together senior practitioners who guide our thinking, open doors and hold us to account. Their presence reflects the trust this community has earned.
