Fast Forward India (FFI) is a unique effort to find creative and powerful ways to tackle problems that impact the lives of millions of underserved people in India. FFI works by creating teams consisting of 3-4 students, one or more experienced mentors and 1-2 members from an NGO to identify a key problem that directly affects the life of a disadvantaged population. The team then brainstorms over the problem and comes up with a solution to the problem, and pilot tests it with the NGO. Once the solution is successfully field tested, FFI helps the team to obtain funding and grow so that its impact scales and improves the lives of larger populations.

There are hundreds of millions of people in India who are deprived of basic needs. We, as a country are capable of designing solutions to meet these needs. Right now such solutions are being designed by a small number of ministers and bureaucrats in the government. The youth has the power and capability to design new solutions to the problems that are a roadblock to our development. FFI will provide an opportunity to the college students in the country to try to work on one of these problems side by side with their studies. Such an experience will, apart from potentially producing great ideas, sensitize the youth to the needs of their disadvantaged countrymen and provide a creative outlet for their energies. The teams' solutions have to focus on three key criteria: sustainability, impact and scalability. Sustainability implies finding a way to self-sustain the project financially/resourcewise, as well as creating an organization or movement that sustains over years and grows in size and impact. Solutions must be designed so that they scale; they must be easily replicable to be able to impact a large percentage of the disadvantaged population in India, since the overarching aim of FFI is to Fast Forward India's pace of development so that the millions of underserved people can get to lead a normal life as soon as possible.