Justice · Pendency
How long Punjab waits for justice.
Amrit Pannu09 May 2026
Share of pending cases in Punjab district courts, by age of filing — a system operating beyond capacity.
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Researching Punjab’s decline. Designing its renewal.
An independent research institution publishing long-form briefs, scenario work and live data on Punjab — the structural problems the state has run into over fifty years, and the specific reforms that would unwind them.
Start exploring →Research Note · Nº 001
Punjab pumps groundwater faster than anywhere else on Earth.
The world’s most extreme groundwater crisis is not an accident of geography. It is sixty years of policy decisions, most of which are still in force.
Punjab Think Tank13 May 202614 min read
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JusticeBy the Numbers
PTT Research02 May 2026
Cases pending in Punjab & Haryana High Court. Each file is a family, a property dispute, a contested promise that waits.
A Diaspora Brief
Diaspora capital & Punjab.
PTT Research26 April 2026
Wealth abroad. Underused at home. Mapping the gap between remittance volumes and productive investment.
Agriculture
Punjab’s cropping pattern, 2025.
PTT Research18 April 2026
Share of cropped area by crop type. Wheat and paddy together account for nearly 70% of all sowing.
Water · Trend
Punjab’s water gap, 1985 → 2035.
Gurpreet Sandhu11 April 2026
Annual extraction vs. natural recharge. The space between is the timer.
A Scenario Brief
Punjab in 2040. Three possible futures.
PTT Research03 April 2026
Drift. Recovery. Renewal. What each scenario actually requires — and what concedes the state to the first.
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Nº 001
Village water budgeting.
A solution at the scale where water actually moves. Drawn from comparable models in Maharashtra and Telangana, adapted to Punjab’s panchayat structure.
Read the proposal →- 01Block-level water audits as the unit of accountability.
- 02Crop-by-crop allocations published per panchayat, annually.
- 03Subsidy realignment — paddy support shifted to water-positive crops.
- 04Recharge infrastructure financed via existing MGNREGA budgets.
- 05Pilot in two blocks. Measure. Then scale.
Punjab by the Numbers
Five statistics that define the state today.
From the live tracker. Updated quarterly from the Central Ground Water Board, NCRB, NSS, Punjab Agriculture Department and the National Judicial Data Grid.
Water
14years
Until Punjab runs out of usable groundwater at current extraction rates.
Central Ground Water Board · 2024
Agriculture
70%
Of cropped area locked into the wheat–paddy rotation.
Punjab Agriculture Dept · 2025
Justice
3.5L
Cases pending in Punjab & Haryana High Court.
National Judicial Data Grid · 2025
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Podcast · Episode 01
The water arithmetic of Punjab.
In conversation with a hydrologist from Punjab Agricultural University — what the data actually says, and what it doesn’t.
42 minListen →
Video · Explainer
Why paddy and not pulses?
A short visual breakdown of the policy architecture that makes paddy the only rational crop for a Punjab farmer.
6 minWatch →
Long read · Field essay
A morning in Malwa.
Driving the cancer belt — what residents say is happening, and what twelve years of epidemiological silence has cost them.
14 min readRead →
From our researchers
Gurpreet Sandhu
Fellow · Water & Ecology
“Punjab does not have a water problem. It has a cropping problem that takes its toll through water. The faster we name the cause correctly, the faster we can stop arguing about the symptom.
Gurpreet Sandhu · From “Punjab’s water gap, 1985 → 2035”
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