Projects to do

How a country requires mines to plan, fund and verify closure shapes what land and water communities are left with, and comparing India's rules with others shows strengths and gaps.

A regional retailer is joining its shop-billing list with its app-user list and fears double counting, wrong contacts and unhappy customers.

Design studios can lose money when a project grows without a clear link between the work done and what the client pays.

Visitors want to meet potters, cane workers and tile painters, but informal visits disrupt artisans and pay them nothing; a planned, paid trail could change that if it can cover its costs.

Talented children in smaller villages often have no route from street play to organised training and trials.

During the monsoon ban, fishing families repair gear, take other work or rely on savings and relief, and planners need evidence on which options actually help and what holds them back.

Packaged food companies depend on crops, and a weak harvest can raise costs, cut supply and force hard choices on price and pack size.

When a platform changes how videos are recommended, creators can see views fall sharply and have no plan for what to do next.

A packing line may be running but still lose output through stops, slow running and rejects, which one measure called OEE brings together.

A small horticulture farmer wants drip irrigation to save water and labour, but a bank will lend only against a clear proposal showing costs, benefits and how the loan will be repaid.

Hinterland stays near waterfalls and forests are lush in the rains, but weekend visitors from nearby cities do not know what is open, how safe the roads are or what to do.

Local news matters to a community but struggles to pay for itself, because readers expect it free and advertisers prefer large platforms.

Banking chatbots often frustrate customers by going in circles when the problem is urgent, such as a blocked card.

Travel creators in Goa get brand offers from hotels, cafes and tour operators, but many quote prices by feel and lose track of what they earned in season and in the monsoon.

Founders pick a way to fund a venture without comparing what each path asks of them in control, time, risk and relationships.

Big college events leave behind plastic, food waste and discarded banners that nobody planned to deal with.

A language app can charge monthly, yearly, per course or nothing at all, and each choice attracts a different kind of learner.

Older people prefer to stay in their own homes, but falls, forgotten stoves and missed medicines worry families living far away.

A patient asks a small hospital chain for a copy of their records and wants some details removed, and staff do not know the steps.

A dealership is judged on the enquiry, the showroom, the handover and later service, yet each is run by a different team that rarely sees the whole.

A small unit either runs out of an item in the middle of a job or orders too much, because nobody has a signal for when to reorder.

Listed mining companies describe their risks in annual reports, but students rarely learn to read those disclosures critically and compare them with what is happening on the ground.

Students present well and then freeze on tough questions, because they rehearse the talk but never the cross-examination.

Tourism boards need to know why visitors came, what they did and what put them off, but badly worded surveys give answers that mislead.