About Us

We Make Youth Opportunity Visible, Measurable, and Politically Salient

65% of India is under 35. Their economic futures are shaped by district-level gaps in education, employment, and opportunity—but this data has never been consolidated or made comparable. We're changing that.

THE PROBLEM

India debates youth futures without ground truth

Policy conversations about youth employment, education, and skilling happen at the national and state level—but outcomes are determined at the district level. Until now, no one has built the infrastructure to make these district-level realities visible, comparable, or actionable.

85% of Indian youth still live in the district where they were born. Yet district-level youth outcomes data remains fragmented across siloed government schemes and databases, incomparable across geographies, and invisible to policymakers, employers, and youth themselves.

The result: Youth remain the subject of policy and political debates without systemic measurement or action on the ground.

OUR APPROACH

Four integrated strategies to shift the discourse

We combine civic technology, institutional tracking, grassroots storytelling, and long-term research to create a complete picture of youth opportunity in India—one that connects data to lived experience, and evidence to political urgency.

01 Civic-Tech Platform

YouthPOWER

India's 1st district-level youth opportunity map. Consolidates 21 government databases into comparable scorecards across 800 districts, tracking 80+ indicators in education, skilling, employment, and economic readiness.

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02 Institutional Research

Institutional Tracker

Tracking Parliament's engagement with youth employment. Analysis of 60,000+ parliamentary questions to assess legislative attention, identify gaps on emerging issues like gig work and AI, and surface bipartisan priorities.

Read the Report

03 Storytelling Initiative

Tracking Indian Youth

Humanising district-level data through the lived realities of young Indians. A media fellowship training youth to document their peers' lives across 22 states—bringing grassroots perspectives to national policy debates.

Read the Stories

04 Long-term Analysis

Strategic Research

Deep analysis of structural forces affecting Indian youth: AI governance and employment impact, information ecosystems and platform design, institutional readiness for technological change.

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ORGANIZATION

Building long-term infrastructure for India's youth opportunity

Future of India Foundation is a Section 8 non-profit organization registered under Section 12A and 80G. We are donor-supported and committed to transparency, rigorous research, and impact over scale.

Leadership

Ruchi Gupta

Executive Director

Ruchi Gupta is a public policy practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in democratic governance, institutional reform, and political strategy. As Executive Director of the Future of India Foundation, she is building an institution to address a critical gap in India's political economy: making youth opportunity visible, measurable, and actionable.

Previously, Ruchi led India's largest progressive student and youth organization, with over 4 million registered members. In 2016, she played a key role in securing an amendment to the President's Address in the Rajya Sabha — only the fifth such instance in independent India's history — defending the right of all citizens to contest local elections.

A former McKinsey consultant and Aspen Global Leadership Fellow, she has published over 150 articles on political economy, democratic transitions, and technology governance in all of India's leading national publications.

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