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+ people, 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 has the largest young population in the world, and it needs far more people trained to work in public policy than it currently has. Only about 60 dedicated policy programmes exist today, together producing roughly 2,000 graduates a year,* even as government vacancies run into the millions and demand from the private sector keeps rising. Think tanks do research. Universities hand out degrees. Consultancies serve paying clients. But almost no one is focused on simply growing the number of people who can do this work — in plain language, for free, in the cities and towns where they already live.
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 22,000+ subscribers to our newsletter, The Policy Post, 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.
40+ 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
August 2026 · PPI turned six
A report, a forum and a think tank walk into a room.
On 14 August 2026, the eve of India's 80th Independence Day and our sixth anniversary, sixty leaders from across the policy ecosystem gathered at the India International Centre for the inaugural National Policy Forum. The evening launched The State of Policy in India, 2026, our first annual flagship report, and formally launched STRIDE, the think tank this community built.
Read the coverage in The Tribune →
The State of Policy in India, 2026
Who is entering India's policy space, what they want and where access breaks down: primary evidence from a 413-respondent Pulse Survey and nine community polls with 18,000+ selections.
About SPI 2026 → Flagship conveningNational Policy Forum
A chaired consultation, not a conference: government, academia, think tanks, philanthropy, industry and civil society in one room, working on the questions shaping India's policy ecosystem.
About the Forum →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 80+ 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.
