Free Policy Workshop in Bengaluru, SOE report on Heat, and PPI Executive
Policy Post #238
Dear reader,
The Policy Post this week brings to you
Upcoming Policy Circle in Bengaluru
“State of India’s Environment: In figures” Report
PPI Executive - a focussed community for policy professionals with 5+ years of experience
As always, we wrap up with a curated list of opportunities.
Let’s get into it!
⁉️The PPI Policy Question: Policy or Parody?
A. A government created official “nap rooms” in workplaces to improve productivity.
B. A city banned people from walking while looking at their phones.
👉 Answer at the bottom of the newsletter.
🏙️PPI’s Policy Circle in Bengaluru on 13th June
Free, in-person policy and development management careers workshop coming soon to Bengaluru!👇🏼
PPI, in partnership with ISDM, is coming to Bengaluru with a curated workshop on how to navigate policy and development management careers. If you’ve been curious about the space looking for the right community, then this is for you!
And you walk away with:
🟣 A careers workshop with Yash Agarwal on navigating paths in policy
🟣 A speaker session with Ravi Sreedharan (Founder and President, ISDM)
🟣 An evening with Bengaluru’s policy community, open + free
🗓️ Saturday, 13th June 🕕 6-8 PM 📍Dialogues Cafe, Koramangala, Bengaluru
✅ Free to attend ☕Coffee’s on us!!
📍 Keep an eye on your chapter’s WhatsApp group for all updates
Not in a chapter yet? Find and join your city chapter here →
📝 Essay of the Week
Nearly 13 per cent of Indians suffer from some kind of disease. Young girls and women are reporting more illness than men in both rural and urban areas.
This essay discusses the “State of India’s Environment: In figures” report published by DTE and CSE on 4th June, 2026.
🏙️PPI Executive for policy professionals
PPI started as a space for people early in their policy journey. Now, we’re building something for the people a few chapters ahead.
PPI Executive is a close-knit, pan-Indian community for policy professionals with 5 to 15 years of experience (Masters and full time fellowships are counted as years of experience).
Ex. A person with 2 years of masters and 3 years of work experience would be eligible to join the community.
It’s sector-agnostic, free to join, and being kept deliberately small to start.
Members get access to:
- A peer directory, searchable by sector and city
- Off-the-record conversations on what’s actually happening in the ecosystem
- Speaking opportunities at PPI events and Policy Sangam
- First consideration for consulting collaborations through PPI
- Intelligence from PPI’s 150,000+ grassroots community
(It’s not another networking group. It’s a vetted room where people actually doing this work can find each other, exchange real intelligence, and collaborate).
🔎 Databases and Guides:
Discover your ultimate career resource sheets for everything related to public policy! Our comprehensive mega-lists include 150+ hiring organisations, 200+ scholarships, and 150+ courses, podcasts and a lot more. Dive in and unlock your next big opportunity!
🌍Climate + Health Corner
In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst
State of Environment report 2026 on Heat
India experiences about 48 extremely hot days each year. Even if countries meet their Paris agreement pledges, this could rise to 71 days under a 2.6°C warming scenario.
💼Careers Corner
A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.
📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!
⁉️Policy or Parody?
Answer: A - Japan has actively encouraged workplace napping culture.