Jaipur, Rajasthan

Siddharth
Sharma

Head Boy, JPIS Founder, Swaraj Columnist, First India

I build things that make government legible to the people it governs — a civic-education app students can actually play, a twenty-rupee collar that keeps stray animals alive on unlit roads, and a newspaper column arguing about how India grows.

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92%

Cost reduction per reflective collar — from ₹200 to ₹20

1,000+

Collars deployed across Rajasthan's accident-prone corridors

$185,000

Raised for rural single-teacher schools as Finance Head

16,500+

Students supported across 550 schools

Selected work

Things I built

01 Swaraj Founder · Live on iOS & Android India's first gamified civic-education app. Named Best AI Startup of the Year, and presented to four sitting ministers. 02 Eco Reflect Founder · Government-backed A ₹20 reflective collar that makes stray animals visible at night. Backed by the Government of Rajasthan after a 92% cost redesign. 03 Students for Last-Mile Learning Finance Head · Since May 2025 $185,000 raised for 550 rural single-teacher schools — a Noble World Record for the largest fundraiser by high-school students for tribal education. 04 Samvidhan Setu Founder · Civic access A merit-based bridge placing students inside real political offices, so civics stops being a textbook subject. 05 GuidonCaddie Founder · Assistive technology A rover-and-app system that tracks the shot, so blind and visually impaired golfers can play the course independently. Featured in First India.

Writing

The economics column

14 May 2026 Global slowdown, India surges India's Goldilocks Year: How we grew when the world couldn't First India 11 March 2026 India's ₹20,000 crore masterstroke Capturing carbon & a seat at the global industrial table First India 13 February 2026 India's growth multiplier India's infra renaissance: Quiet power of building for tomorrow First India 21 January 2026 The industrial pivot Can the National Manufacturing Mission break India's middle-income trap? First India

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About

Curiosity, then consequence

Most of what I've built started as something I noticed and couldn't stop noticing.

Stray animals hit on unlit roads on the way to school. Students who could recite the Preamble but had never filed a grievance. Rural schools with one teacher and no funding pipeline. In each case the gap wasn't awareness — it was that nobody had made the next step small enough to take.

So I tend to work the same way each time: find the constraint that actually binds, drive the cost of acting down until it stops mattering, then push it through institutions until it becomes somebody's policy rather than my project.

Outside that I study economics and physics, argue in debate rounds, play golf and volleyball, and serve as Head Boy of Jayshree Periwal International School in Jaipur.