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Community Engagement
Creating spaces where policy conversations happen
Public Policy India is India's first, largest and most vibrant pan-India community of public policy and social impact professionals, students and institutions. It is free, open to all, present in India's 25 largest cities and still growing.
What we have built is rare in public life. A first-year student and a senior practitioner can end up at the same table here, in their own city, arguing about the same problem. Members come from government, think tanks, NGOs, companies, universities and foundations.
The community looks like the country it wants to serve. Most members are young, more than half are women, and more than half live outside the largest metros.
Every chapter is led by a City Policy Chapter Leader (CPCL), a volunteer who welcomes new members, checks what enters the group, connects people and keeps the standard of the room. The role is voluntary and the community is free for every member.
What you do
Run your city's chapter
Run your city's WhatsApp chapter: welcome people, share opportunities you've checked, and co-host Policy Circles. Expect two to three hours a week.
What you get
A platform early in your career
First call on internships and STRIDE projects, a direct line to the team, and a route to the paid PPI Community Fellowship. It looks good on a CV, too.
The role in brief
Two years, renewable
One or two WhatsApp chapters with full admin rights, a monthly CPCL call, and the other chapter leaders as colleagues from day one.
Where it leads
Emerge as a leader in your city
Running a chapter makes you a known name in your city's public policy and social impact space. The network stays with you.
No policy background is needed: just reliability, warmth and a real interest in public life.
Members do more than turn up. These platforms give them a stage, readers and a reason to contribute.
At every Policy Circle
Showcase
Members present the projects, research and initiatives they are building. The room asks questions, gives feedback and connects people who should know each other.
Recent examples include Pehli Chitthi, by Divvya Jain, which asks young people to write about an idea they care about, and Children Today, Leaders Tomorrow, by Manaswita Nakwaal, which runs community learning for children in rural Jaipur.
Across our channels
Spotlight
A regular feature on people and organisations doing work worth knowing about, carried on our social channels and in The Policy Post. Recent features include Sansad Wordle, Policy Wonk and Urbanist Comix.
For contributors
Pathfinders
Members earn points for what they give the community: sharing a career opportunity, bringing people to a Policy Circle, building engagement in a chapter or hosting a meetup. Points earn rewards and priority for PPI programmes.
Building something in public policy or social impact?
Present it at a Policy Circle Showcase, or tell us about it for Spotlight. Either way, the right people get to see it.
A Policy Circle in full swing.A Policy Circle afternoon in Bengaluru.
In their words
What the community says
I moved back to India after working in government and found there was no single place to find roles in policy. Yash is the Tom Manatos of India's public policy space.
PPI gave me a network and a community, remotely. The newsletter and the group chats were very comforting. I have just started my career in policy as an intern in Delhi.
PPI has done a great job of demystifying public policy careers. By bringing people together and sharing information across channels, it is filling an important gap.
