Open problems
383 problems · 35 states
All India44
- IT jobs and the coming wave of AIJobs & migration
- Pesticides banned abroad, still sold in IndiaFarming & rural life
- Grey skies and dirty airEnvironment & pollution
- Poor nutrition and a stalled rise in heightHealth
- Families paying for their own healthcareHealth
- Can a poor family afford enough protein?Health
- Education spending far below the 6% goalEducation & exams
- Children who can't read at their levelEducation & exams
- Lakhs of teacher posts emptyEducation & exams
- Exam paper leaksEducation & exams
- Few Olympic medals and a sliding football teamSport & fitness
- Roads that break within a few yearsRoads, power & connectivity
- Late trains, and nothing for the passengerTrains, flights & travel
- Too few trains for the people who need themTrains, flights & travel
- Dirty toilets and unsafe water on trains and at stationsTrains, flights & travel
- IndiGo's mass cancellations and a slow responseTrains, flights & travel
- Falling behind in the AI raceIndustry, debt & prices
- GDP that counts the damage as growthIndustry, debt & prices
- Medicines that poisoned childrenConsumer protection
- Health insurance claims refusedConsumer protection
- Food that fails safety testsConsumer protection
- Fake paneer sold as the real thingConsumer protection
- Too few judgesCourts & judiciary
- No law pays people who were wrongly prosecutedCourts & judiciary
- 5.8 crore cases waiting in courtCourts & judiciary
- Prisoners who haven't been convictedCourts & judiciary
- Courts run on less than 1% of state budgetsCourts & judiciary
- Rape trials that take yearsCourts & judiciary
- Knowingly false complaints are rarely punishedCourts & judiciary
- Policing still runs on an 1861 lawPolice & public safety
- Police reforms the Supreme Court ordered in 2006Police & public safety
- Police records go to a central database, but nobody checks them for warning signsPolice & public safety
- No record of what happens inside police stationsPolice & public safety
- One in five police posts emptyPolice & public safety
- Deaths in police and judicial custodyPolice & public safety
- Overworked police with no health checksPolice & public safety
- Cyber fraud that keeps growingPolice & public safety
- Scam call centres that target people abroadPolice & public safety
- Lawmakers facing criminal casesGovernance & corruption
- Bribe demands with nowhere to complainGovernance & corruption
- Government websites and apps that fail when people need themGovernance & corruption
- Contracts that reward the cheapest bidGovernance & corruption
- Atrocity cases: few convictions, long trials and disputes over misuseRights & citizenship
- Posts and accounts blocked without reasonsRights & citizenship
Andaman and Nicobar Islands2
Andhra Pradesh18
- Future of the Visakhapatnam Steel PlantJobs & migration
- Polavaram project and its moving deadlinesWater, floods & drought
- Water for RayalaseemaWater, floods & drought
- Amaravati capital and land-pooling farmersLand, forests & displacement
- Special Category Status never grantedIndustry, debt & prices
- The Kadapa steel plant never builtKadapaJobs & migration
- Atchutapuram pharma explosionAnakapalliJobs & migration
- Chronic drought and groundnut farmersAnantapuramuFarming & rural life
- Veligonda irrigation projectOngoleWater, floods & drought
- LG Polymers gas leakVisakhapatnamEnvironment & pollution
- Gas leaks in KonaseemaAmalapuramEnvironment & pollution
- Encroachment on Kolleru lakeEluruEnvironment & pollution
- Uddanam kidney diseaseSrikakulamHealth
- Budameru floods in VijayawadaVijayawadaCities, housing & transport
- Bauxite mining and land worries in the Araku hillsArakuLand, forests & displacement
- A High Court bench for RayalaseemaKurnoolCourts & judiciary
- Stampede at a Tirupati token centreTirupatiPolice & public safety
- Ration rice smuggled through Kakinada portKakinadaGovernance & corruption
Arunachal Pradesh5
- Big dams and indigenous landLand, forests & displacement
- Roads and services in border districtsRoads, power & connectivity
- The Chakma–Hajong citizenship questionRights & citizenship
- The 2022 state service exam leakArunachal WestEducation & exams
- Siang Upper Multipurpose ProjectArunachal EastLand, forests & displacement
Assam14
- Tea-garden workers' wages and land rightsJobs & migration
- Brahmaputra floods and erosionWater, floods & drought
- Eviction drives and rehabilitationLand, forests & displacement
- Citizenship limbo and tribunal delaysRights & citizenship
- Carrying out peace accordsConflict & peace
- The 2022 Silchar floodsSilcharWater, floods & drought
- Char villages in DhubriDhubriWater, floods & drought
- Lower Subansiri dam safetyLakhimpurWater, floods & drought
- Erosion of Dibrugarh townDibrugarhWater, floods & drought
- Majuli losing land to erosionJorhatWater, floods & drought
- Human–elephant conflict in SonitpurSonitpurEnvironment & pollution
- Flash floods in GuwahatiGuwahatiCities, housing & transport
- Evictions in DhalpurDarrang-UdalguriLand, forests & displacement
- Barak valley connectivityKarimganjRoads, power & connectivity
Bihar7
- Distress migrationJobs & migration
- Kosi and Ganga floodsWater, floods & drought
- Liquor ban and hooch deathsHealth
- Exam leaks and recruitment delaysEducation & exams
- Land disputesLand, forests & displacement
- Kosi floods in SupaulSupaulWater, floods & drought
- Children's encephalitis in MuzaffarpurMuzaffarpurHealth
Chandigarh3
Chhattisgarh4
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu4
Delhi10
- Winter air pollutionEnvironment & pollution
- Yamuna clean-up deadlines keep movingEnvironment & pollution
- Slum demolitions and housingCities, housing & transport
- No reliable piped water in Sangam ViharSouth DelhiWater, floods & drought
- Ghazipur landfillEast DelhiEnvironment & pollution
- Bhalswa landfill deadline missed six timesNorth West DelhiEnvironment & pollution
- Najafgarh drain, the Yamuna's biggest polluterWest DelhiEnvironment & pollution
- Building collapses and fires in the walled cityChandni ChowkCities, housing & transport
- Unauthorised colonies without sewersNorth East DelhiCities, housing & transport
- Unsafe basements in the coaching hubNew DelhiCities, housing & transport
Goa7
- Jobs and migrationJobs & migration
- Mhadei river diversionWater, floods & drought
- Land conversion and coastal constructionLand, forests & displacement
- Mining shutdownIndustry, debt & prices
- Safety in the tourist economyPolice & public safety
- Coal dust from Mormugao portSouth GoaEnvironment & pollution
- Local jobs and traffic around Mopa airportNorth GoaRoads, power & connectivity
Gujarat4
Haryana4
Himachal Pradesh4
Jammu and Kashmir3
Jharkhand6
- Migration for workJobs & migration
- Jharia coalfield fireEnvironment & pollution
- Recruitment paper leaksEducation & exams
- Mining displacement and tribal landLand, forests & displacement
- Mining in the Saranda forestsSinghbhumEnvironment & pollution
- Land for the Godda power plantGoddaLand, forests & displacement
Karnataka20
- Farm distress and sugarcane pricesFarming & rural life
- Mekedatu and Mahadayi water projects stuck in disputesWater, floods & drought
- Bengaluru's traffic, water, floods and garbageCities, housing & transport
- Kalyana Karnataka left behindIndustry, debt & prices
- Kolar Gold Fields after the mines closedKolarJobs & migration
- Tur dal prices for Gulbarga's farmersGulbargaFarming & rural life
- Yettinahole drinking-water projectChikballapurWater, floods & drought
- Tungabhadra canal water and dam safetyRaichurWater, floods & drought
- Upper Bhadra irrigation for drought-hit ChitradurgaChitradurgaWater, floods & drought
- Disputes over Hemavathi canal waterTumkurWater, floods & drought
- Steel-factory expansion and pollution in KoppalKoppalEnvironment & pollution
- The legacy of illegal iron-ore miningBellaryEnvironment & pollution
- Oxygen-shortage deaths at Chamarajanagar hospitalChamarajanagarHealth
- Upper Krishna Project land and rehabilitationBagalkotLand, forests & displacement
- Sharavathi dam families without land titlesShimogaLand, forests & displacement
- Land acquisition for the Bidadi townshipBangalore RuralLand, forests & displacement
- Shirur landslide on the national highwayUttara KannadaRoads, power & connectivity
- The struggling Mysugar millMandyaIndustry, debt & prices
- Stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadiumBangalore CentralPolice & public safety
- Belagavi border disputeBelagaviGovernance & corruption
Kerala18
- Mullaperiyar dam safetyWater, floods & drought
- Human–wildlife conflict in the hillsEnvironment & pollution
- Coastal erosion and fishermen's livelihoodsEnvironment & pollution
- Rehabilitation after the Wayanad landslideLand, forests & displacement
- Youth emigration, unemployment and state debtIndustry, debt & prices
- Collapse of the cashew-processing industryKollamJobs & migration
- Late payments to paddy farmers in PalakkadPalakkadFarming & rural life
- Falling rubber pricesKottayamFarming & rural life
- Floods in KuttanadAlappuzhaWater, floods & drought
- Industrial pollution of the PeriyarChalakudyEnvironment & pollution
- Endosulfan compensation in KasaragodKasaragodHealth
- Brahmapuram waste-plant fire and Kochi's garbageErnakulamCities, housing & transport
- Land titles and building rules in IdukkiIdukkiLand, forests & displacement
- Vizhinjam port and coastal displacementThiruvananthapuramLand, forests & displacement
- Night-traffic ban on the Bandipur highwayWayanadRoads, power & connectivity
- Karuvannur cooperative bank fraudThrissurIndustry, debt & prices
- Political killings in KannurKannurPolice & public safety
- Missing gold from Sabarimala temple artefactsPathanamthittaGovernance & corruption
Lakshadweep4
Madhya Pradesh5
Maharashtra23
- Farmer suicides in Vidarbha and MarathwadaFarming & rural life
- Drought and water shortage in MarathwadaWater, floods & drought
- Exam paper leaksEducation & exams
- Mumbai housing and transportCities, housing & transport
- The Maratha reservation demandRights & citizenship
- Onion prices after export bansDindoriFarming & rural life
- The delayed Gosikhurd irrigation projectBhandara-GondiyaWater, floods & drought
- Water shortage in Chhatrapati SambhajinagarAurangabadWater, floods & drought
- Krishna river floods in SangliSangliWater, floods & drought
- Conservation of Lonar lakeBuldhanaEnvironment & pollution
- Coal and power-plant pollution in ChandrapurChandrapurEnvironment & pollution
- The Deonar landfillMumbai North EastEnvironment & pollution
- The Irshalwadi landslideRaigadEnvironment & pollution
- Industrial pollution in Pimpri-Chinchwad and the Indrayani riverMavalEnvironment & pollution
- Child malnutrition in NandurbarNandurbarHealth
- Dharavi redevelopmentMumbai North CentralCities, housing & transport
- Opposition to the Vadhavan portPalgharLand, forests & displacement
- Resistance to the Barsu refineryRatnagiri-SindhudurgLand, forests & displacement
- Farmers opposing the Shaktipeeth expresswayKolhapurLand, forests & displacement
- The powerloom crisis in BhiwandiBhiwandiIndustry, debt & prices
- Death in judicial custody after the Parbhani unrestParbhaniPolice & public safety
- Extortion and a sarpanch's murder in BeedBeedPolice & public safety
- Decades of Maoist conflict in GadchiroliGadchiroli-ChimurConflict & peace
Manipur3
Meghalaya4
Mizoram3
Odisha6
- Distress migration from western OdishaJobs & migration
- Mahanadi water dispute with ChhattisgarhWater, floods & drought
- Coastal erosionEnvironment & pollution
- Mining and land conflicts in tribal areasLand, forests & displacement
- The Bahanaga train collisionBalasoreRoads, power & connectivity
- Stampede during the 2025 Rath Yatra in PuriPuriPolice & public safety
Puducherry6
Punjab16
- Youth emigrationJobs & migration
- Farm distress and stubble burningFarming & rural life
- Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal disputeWater, floods & drought
- Groundwater collapse from the paddy cycleWater, floods & drought
- The 2025 floods and slow compensationWater, floods & drought
- Drug addictionHealth
- Farmland beyond the border fenceFirozepurFarming & rural life
- Ravi floods around Dera Baba NanakGurdaspurWater, floods & drought
- Water for the Kandi beltHoshiarpurWater, floods & drought
- Water releases from Bhakra-NangalAnandpur SahibWater, floods & drought
- Ghaggar floodsPatialaWater, floods & drought
- Buddha Nullah pollution in LudhianaLudhianaEnvironment & pollution
- Steel-industry pollution and decline in Mandi GobindgarhFatehgarh SahibEnvironment & pollution
- Cancer and contaminated groundwater in MalwaBathindaHealth
- Decline of Jalandhar's sports-goods and leather industriesJalandharIndustry, debt & prices
- No verdict in the 2015 police firing casesFaridkotCourts & judiciary
Rajasthan5
Sikkim4
Tamil Nadu32
- Textile and engineering job losses after US tariffsJobs & migration
- Cauvery water and the Mekedatu dam disputeWater, floods & drought
- NEET and medical admissionsEducation & exams
- Language and education funding disputes with the CentreEducation & exams
- Delimitation and the state's share of Lok Sabha seatsGovernance & corruption
- Fishermen arrested by Sri LankaRights & citizenship
- Fishermen lost at sea in Cyclone OckhiKanniyakumariJobs & migration
- Ammonia leak at a Tiruvallur factoryTiruvallurJobs & migration
- Labour disputes in the Sriperumbudur manufacturing beltSriperumbudurJobs & migration
- Explosions at Sivakasi firecracker factoriesVirudhunagarJobs & migration
- Recovery from Cyclone GajaNagapattinamFarming & rural life
- Mullaperiyar dam water for TheniTheniWater, floods & drought
- The December 2023 floods in TirunelveliTirunelveliWater, floods & drought
- Pollution in Ennore and North ChennaiChennai NorthEnvironment & pollution
- Chromium waste around RanipetArakkonamEnvironment & pollution
- Tannery effluent in the PalarVelloreEnvironment & pollution
- Human–elephant conflict in KrishnagiriKrishnagiriEnvironment & pollution
- Noyyal river pollutionTiruppurEnvironment & pollution
- Chemical pollution from Cuddalore SIPCOTCuddaloreEnvironment & pollution
- Fluoride in Dharmapuri's groundwaterDharmapuriHealth
- Illicit liquor deaths around MarakkanamViluppuramHealth
- AIIMS Madurai still not completeMaduraiHealth
- Floods and lost wetlands in south ChennaiChennai SouthCities, housing & transport
- Families evicted from Chennai's river banksChennai CentralCities, housing & transport
- Parandur airport land protestsKancheepuramLand, forests & displacement
- Land acquisition for the Melma/Cheyyar SIPCOT projectAraniLand, forests & displacement
- Land protests over the Salem–Chennai expresswaySalemLand, forests & displacement
- Land-title disputes in GudalurNilgirisLand, forests & displacement
- Kallakurichi hooch tragedyKallakurichiPolice & public safety
- Karur crowd crushKarurPolice & public safety
- The 2018 Thoothukudi police firingThoothukudiPolice & public safety
- The Keezhadi excavation reportSivagangaGovernance & corruption
Telangana16
- Unemployment and disputes over state service examsJobs & migration
- Krishna and Godavari water shares with Andhra PradeshWater, floods & drought
- Demolitions along the Musi and on lake beds in HyderabadCities, housing & transport
- Kaleshwaram project and the Medigadda barrageGovernance & corruption
- Nizam Deccan Sugars factory closedNizamabadJobs & migration
- The SLBC tunnelNagarkurnoolWater, floods & drought
- Palamuru–Rangareddy lift irrigation delaysMahabubnagarWater, floods & drought
- The September 2024 floods in MahabubabadMahabubabadWater, floods & drought
- Godavari floods around BhadrachalamKhammamWater, floods & drought
- Lifting catchment protections around Hyderabad's reservoirsChevellaEnvironment & pollution
- Hyderabad's sewage in the MusiBhuvanagiriEnvironment & pollution
- Fluorosis from groundwater in NalgondaNalgondaHealth
- Singareni coal-mine displacement and pollutionPeddapalliLand, forests & displacement
- Land acquisition for the NIMZ industrial zoneZahirabadLand, forests & displacement
- Villages displaced for Mallanna SagarMedakLand, forests & displacement
- The long-promised Mamnoor airportWarangalRoads, power & connectivity
Tripura6
- JobsJobs & migration
- About 10,000 teachers terminatedEducation & exams
- Border connectivityRoads, power & connectivity
- Drug trafficking from MyanmarPolice & public safety
- Tribal autonomy and the 2024 accordGovernance & corruption
- Violence after the April 2026 council electionsTripura EastPolice & public safety
Uttar Pradesh50
- Migration from Purvanchal and BundelkhandJobs & migration
- Stray cattle destroying cropsFarming & rural life
- Water in BundelkhandWater, floods & drought
- Public hospitals and schoolsHealth
- Unemployment, recruitment delays and paper leaksEducation & exams
- Late sugarcane paymentsMuzaffarnagarFarming & rural life
- Potato price crashes in FarrukhabadFarrukhabadFarming & rural life
- Paddy procurement in ChandauliChandauliFarming & rural life
- Sharda and Ghaghra erosionDhaurahraWater, floods & drought
- Ghaghra floods in GondaGondaWater, floods & drought
- Rapti floods in SiddharthnagarDomariyaganjWater, floods & drought
- Ghaghra floods in BastiBastiWater, floods & drought
- Ghaghra floods and erosion in Sant Kabir NagarSant Kabir NagarWater, floods & drought
- Floods along the Nepal border in MaharajganjMaharajganjWater, floods & drought
- Ghaghra floods and erosion in SalempurSalempurWater, floods & drought
- Ganga and Ghaghra erosion in BalliaBalliaWater, floods & drought
- Gomti floods in JaunpurJaunpurWater, floods & drought
- Ganga erosion in GhazipurGhazipurWater, floods & drought
- Leopard attacks in Bijnor's cane fieldsBijnorEnvironment & pollution
- Yamuna pollution in MathuraMathuraEnvironment & pollution
- Tiger and leopard attacks around Pilibhit Tiger ReservePilibhitEnvironment & pollution
- Industrial pollution along the Ganga in UnnaoUnnaoEnvironment & pollution
- Chromium waste in Rania's groundwaterAkbarpurEnvironment & pollution
- Illegal sand mining in the Betwa and YamunaHamirpurEnvironment & pollution
- Illegal sand mining in the Ken riverBandaEnvironment & pollution
- Wolf attacks in Mahsi tehsilBahraichEnvironment & pollution
- City drains polluting the Ganga at VaranasiVaranasiEnvironment & pollution
- Stone mining and crushers in MirzapurMirzapurEnvironment & pollution
- Fly ash and fluoride in Sonbhadra's waterRobertsganjEnvironment & pollution
- Newborn-unit fire at Jhansi's medical collegeJhansiHealth
- Children's encephalitis in GorakhpurGorakhpurHealth
- The 69,000 assistant-teacher recruitmentLucknowEducation & exams
- Stalled flats in GhaziabadGhaziabadCities, housing & transport
- Land compensation for Noida's farmersGautam Buddha NagarLand, forests & displacement
- Displacement and compensation in AyodhyaFaizabadLand, forests & displacement
- Bundelkhand Expressway cave-in near JalaunJalaunRoads, power & connectivity
- Industry and the Taj Mahal protection orderAgraIndustry, debt & prices
- Decline of Saharanpur's wood-carving industrySaharanpurIndustry, debt & prices
- Moradabad's brass industry under pressureMoradabadIndustry, debt & prices
- Khurja's pottery kilns shut by the gas crisisBulandshahrIndustry, debt & prices
- Decline of Aligarh's lock industryAligarhIndustry, debt & prices
- Firozabad's glass industry in crisisFirozabadIndustry, debt & prices
- Kanpur's closed textile millsKanpurIndustry, debt & prices
- Closed sugar mills in KushinagarKushi NagarIndustry, debt & prices
- Deoria and Baitalpur sugar mills shut for decadesDeoriaIndustry, debt & prices
- Mubarakpur's silk-saree weaversAzamgarhIndustry, debt & prices
- Mau's weavers squeezedGhosiIndustry, debt & prices
- Jobs in Bhadohi's carpet sectorBhadohiIndustry, debt & prices
- Slow trial in the 2021 Tikunia killingsKheriCourts & judiciary
- Accountability for the 2025 Kumbh stampedeAllahabadPolice & public safety
Uttarakhand10
- Hill migration and empty villagesJobs & migration
- Disasters and unsafe constructionEnvironment & pollution
- Healthcare gaps in the hillsHealth
- Jobs and recruitment-exam leaksEducation & exams
- An unfinished probe in a 2022 casePolice & public safety
- Soapstone mining and cracked houses in BageshwarAlmoraEnvironment & pollution
- Ganga pollution and illegal riverbed mining in HaridwarHaridwarEnvironment & pollution
- Rehabilitating Joshimath's displaced familiesGarhwalLand, forests & displacement
- Tehri dam oustees still waitingTehri GarhwalLand, forests & displacement
- Banbhoolpura railway-land case in HaldwaniNainital-Udhamsingh NagarLand, forests & displacement
West Bengal11
- Industry leaving and workers migratingJobs & migration
- Ganga erosion in Malda and MurshidabadWater, floods & drought
- The school recruitment scamEducation & exams
- Violence after electionsPolice & public safety
- Gaps in border fencing and smugglingPolice & public safety
- Closed tea gardens in AlipurduarsAlipurduarsJobs & migration
- Singur, land and industryHooghlyLand, forests & displacement
- Closed jute mills along the HooghlyBarrackporeIndustry, debt & prices
- Violence during protests in April 2025JangipurPolice & public safety
- Land-grab and abuse complaints in SandeshkhaliBasirhatPolice & public safety
- Doctors' safety after the R.G. Kar caseKolkata UttarPolice & public safety
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The People’s Manifesto · an open draft for 2029
What should India fix first?
Problems people face across India and in every state, and the reforms HRP proposes to fix them. Find one you care about, see what is known, and add what you know.
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- All India · Jobs & migrationIT jobs and the coming wave of AI
India's technology industry employs about 5.95 million people and earned $315 billion in 2025-26. The five largest IT services firms shrank by 7,389 people that year, as clients turn to AI for routine coding, testing and support.
- All India · Farming & rural lifePesticides banned abroad, still sold in India
Dozens of pesticides that other countries ban or restrict are still sold to Indian farmers.
- All India · Environment & pollutionGrey skies and dirty air
Every Indian lives where fine-particle pollution is above the WHO guideline. The same haze turns the sky white or grey instead of blue, and it takes an estimated 3.5 years off the average Indian life.
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