Community Engagement
80+ Policy Circles. 20 cities. Six years of showing up.
The Policy Circles, the City Chapters, the newsletter and the platform: this is where it all comes together. An open, pan-India, high-trust community where students, practitioners and institutions meet, in person and online, sector-agnostic and built around a simple belief that more young people belong in policy. Most members travel the same arc: discover, find clarity, take part, and go on to lead.
Everything that holds the community together
City chapters
40+ city chapters across India's 25 largest cities, each with its own city-level WhatsApp group where opportunities, events and questions move in real time. The idea is simple: to seed a local and regional policy ecosystem in every part of India.
Find your city → Free and in personMonthly Policy Circles
Open, free, in-person gatherings every month. We have hosted 80+ Policy Circles across India's 20 largest cities over the last six years, each one a room of conversations, networking and speakers from across the policy ecosystem.
See the latest Policy Circle → Every FridayThe Policy Post
PPI's weekly newsletter: hundreds of jobs, internships, fellowships, learning modules and the week in policy. Free, no spam, delivered every Friday morning.
Subscribe → On YouTubePolicy Panchayat
PPI's YouTube series: regular, honest conversations with practitioners, policymakers and experts about how policy actually works. Free to watch, anytime.
Watch on YouTube → All in one placePolis
The all-in-one PPI platform: take real civic action, get it verified, climb the leaderboard and reach your representatives, in a single home.
Open Polis → Volunteer-ledCity Policy Chapter Leaders
Local volunteers who run each chapter on the ground: hosting Policy Circles, welcoming new members and keeping the conversation going between events.
Meet the leaders → Member spotlightsPathfinders, Showcase and Spotlight of the Week
Recurring features that surface members' journeys, work and milestones across the community.
Explore the features → For senior practitionersPPI Executive
A closed network of senior and mid-career practitioners, with quarterly gatherings in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.
Express interest →Chapters across India
From the metros to fast-rising cities, our chapters span 25+ cities across India. Tap any city to find and join its WhatsApp community.
The people who run the chapters
Every chapter is led by a City Policy Chapter Leader: a volunteer who hosts Policy Circles, welcomes new members and keeps the conversation going between events. It is the most hands-on role in the community, and the most visible. Leaders build a public profile in the policy ecosystem, a network across cities, and the kind of judgement that only comes from running real events and bringing people together. We are growing the team. If you want to represent PPI in your city, this is where it starts.
What you do
Host monthly Policy Circles, grow your city's chapter, and connect members to opportunities across the network.
What you gain
A visible leadership profile, a network across India's policy ecosystem, and real skills in events, community and stakeholder engagement.
What it takes
Reliability, warmth and a genuine interest in public life. No prior policy background required, just the will to show up for your city.
Become a leader →Meet some of the people behind our chapters
Some of the people who hold PPI together in their cities.
Amal Saji
Kerala City Policy Chapter Leader
Amal Saji is a public policy practitioner working at the intersection of child rights, governance and institutional reform. His work focuses on translating grassroots challenges into evidence-informed policy interventions, contributing to systemic improvements in child protection, education and public service delivery. Several of his interventions have informed administrative directions and institutional reforms aimed at strengthening child-centric governance.
Sagar Narayan
Lucknow City Policy Chapter Leader
Sagar is a climate policy and international development researcher with over four years across climate governance, education and sustainable development. He holds an M.Phil and was a PhD researcher at the Central University of Gujarat, and has worked with IIT Kanpur, a NITI Aayog project and Uttar Pradesh's NIPUN literacy mission. He leads PPI in Lucknow.
Tanya Saxena
Bhopal and Indore City Policy Chapter Leader
A lawyer by training and a systems thinker by inclination, Tanya works at the intersection of policy, product and institutional reform. She is in public policy at Navi, and previously worked with MeitY and the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Girish
Chandigarh City Policy Chapter Leader
Girish is an innovation consultant with a background across engineering, tech strategy and public policy. He has worked in policy consulting, political advisory and civil-services mentoring, and leads PPI's Chandigarh chapter.
Nilanjana Bhattacharjee
Kolkata City Policy Chapter Leader
Nilanjana is a public policy professional working across tech governance, democracy and development. Her work spans government advisory, research and monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on the SDGs, and she is also a co-founder, writer and animal-rights advocate.
Ankit Priya
Hyderabad City Policy Chapter Leader
For Ankit, public policy is about solving the everyday problems people face: a child learning well, a commuter getting home on time, a farmer earning a better living, and a government that works. A first-principles approach has guided his work, with a focus on helping systems deliver better outcomes. He is Research and Advocacy Lead at the Foundation for Democratic Reforms.
Not just a following. A community.
A newsletter open rate several times the typical industry range, and a WhatsApp read rate above 80% verified from receipts, are both rare at this scale. This is what trust looks like in the numbers.
Who is in the room
What the community says
I remember moving back to India after working in government and realising there was no single centralised platform to find roles in policy. Yash is the Tom Manatos of India's public policy space.
PPI played a huge role for me by providing network and community remotely. The access to information from the newsletter and group chats was very comforting. I have just started my career in policy as an intern in Delhi.
I have collaborated with the PPI community for nearly three years across public policy programmes. What makes the PPI family special is its commitment to a strong community of future policy professionals and changemakers.
PPI over the past six years has done a great job demystifying public policy careers. By bringing people together and sharing information across different channels, PPI is filling an important gap.
Find your people
Subscribe to the newsletter, join your city's chapter and come to a Policy Circle. It is free, and it is open.