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Make It Move 2026

Bareilly's Youth Talent & Innovation Festival

24–25 October 2026 · Bareilly, India

A youth-led festival across four tracks — Perform, Think, Build, Solve — bringing talent, ideas, research, technology and innovation onto one stage. Built by the same student researchers behind ARF's field work below.

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ANEJA RESEARCH FOUNDATION • BAREILLY, U.P. • EST. 2026

Research.
Innovation.
Implementation.

A student-led, faculty-advised urban research foundation studying systemic infrastructure failure in Tier-2 Indian cities — and turning field evidence into interventions municipal agencies can actually execute.

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"Problems are symptoms. Systems are the disease. Fix the system, cure the problem."

— ARF Research Philosophy

Impact By Numbers

Four months of field research on one connected corridor in Bareilly.

03

Field Case Studies

Traffic · Drainage · Roads

55+

Pages Of Published Research

Field-evidenced, public reports

01

Implementation Framework

ARF-CIF v1.0

11

Board & Core Members

Student-led, faculty-advised

ONE CORRIDOR. THREE FAILURES. ONE ROOT CAUSE.

The Bareilly Corridor Trilogy

Between March and June 2026, ARF studied a single connected stretch of Bareilly — from the Prem Nagar Chauraha junction to the Model Town residential colony. Three locations. Three different problems. The same broken system behind each one.

CS1 · MARCH 2026

Why Does Bareilly Choke?

A 4-arm signalised junction operating beyond designed capacity — signal timing, road design and the school-dispersal peak at Prem Nagar Chauraha.

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CS2 · APRIL 2026

Why Does Bareilly Flood?

Drainage infrastructure, stormwater management and flood-prone zones in the Model Town colony — where the water goes when the system fails.

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CS3 · JUNE 2026

Why Does Construction Never End?

The road that physically connects the first two sites: a 125–175 m reconstruction left incomplete for an estimated 2–3 years, with no safety barriers.

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66.7%Construction Completion Ratio (CS3)
6.5/10Safety Risk Index (CS3)
7.3/10Public Impact Score (CS3)
2–3 yrsCorridor Left Incomplete

The ARF Method

Every study follows the same five-stage discipline — from street-level observation to municipal implementation.

01Observe

Identify a real urban problem through direct field experience.

02Trace

Map the system of agencies and incentives behind it.

03Analyse

Measure the failure with field data and defined indices.

04Prescribe

Design layered interventions by cost and authority level.

05Implement

Put the fix in front of the agencies that can execute it.

From Research To Implementation

Research that ends in a report is unfinished. ARF's three case studies converge into one execution framework.

ARF-CIF v1.0 · 2026

Coordinated Implementation Framework

One committee, one pilot, one tool. The ARF-CIF translates all three case studies into a coordinated set of interventions for Bareilly's municipal agencies — classified into three implementation levels, from zero-cost actions activatable within days to structural capital works.

● Currently in discussions with the municipal administration on a coordinated urban infrastructure partnership for Bareilly.

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One Committee

A monthly inter-agency coordination cell reviewing infrastructure performance data.

One Pilot

School-dispersal traffic management at Prem Nagar Chauraha — zero recurring cost.

One Tool

The ARF Mobility Dashboard — real-time urban infrastructure monitoring.

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ARF is looking for students who want their research to end in implementation, not just reports.

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