How a Delhi Student Built a Validated, Scalable Technology Platform for India’s Urban Settlements

Through Project Amrit, Grade 12 student Devika Raj Batra has combined UV-C sterilisation engineering, scientific validation, and a women-led community deployment model to bring safe drinking water to more than 10,000 residents of Delhi’s informal settlements — and to demonstrate what responsible technology at scale actually looks like. In the narrow lanes of Kusumpur Pahari, one of Delhi’s largest informal settlements, access to water does not always mean access to safe water.