The Better India · 14 hours ago

15 Yo Builds AI Tool to Fix Delhi's Potholes

When Parth's parents struck an unfinished construction site on a dark road home from Agra and fell from their motorcycle, the 15-year-old from Delhi did not simply absorb the fear and move on. He taught himself what he didn't yet know, wrote code line by line, and built Project Sadak - an AI-driven platform that photographs, verifies, and escalates pothole reports directly to municipal authorities, doing automatically what exhausted citizens cannot sustain alone. "Thankfully, it wasn't a major accident, but it did awaken a calling inside me that I really needed to do something about this," he recalls - a quiet sentence that holds the whole story. Of the 11 potholes repaired through the platform so far, Parth personally oversaw 10, showing up with workers, materials, and a camera to document each one. What he's built is less about technology than about refusing the resignation that infrastructure failure quietly asks of everyone who drives around the same crater for the third time and says nothing.