Onkar Singh Batra :World’s Youngest Web Developer From Jammu and Kashmir is Helping India Fight Coronavirus

In January 2020, Onkar received the ‘Bal Shakti Puraskar’ (National Child Award) from the President of India Ram Nath Kovind.

Fourteen-year-old Onkar Singh Batra has built the COVID Care Jammu website to help people connect with doctors and get medical support for corona virus-related issues.

Onkar has developed the website in partnership with the volunteer of doctors from the Government Medical College (GMC) to provide medical facilities to the users.

Residents of Jammu can use this website to chat with doctors regarding COVID-19-related issues.
People can also use the portal to self-test through its COVID Self Risk Assessment (SRA) which is sourced by the Apollo Hospital.

It also offers an initiative named ‘Talaash COVID-19’, using which people can report their COVID-19 symptoms. Once a user reports their symptoms, a medical team will then contact the user.

Peek inside the mind of the prodigy A triple world record holder, Onkar said that he developed the website within 17 hours. “Had the 4G network been made available in our state, I could have built it in five to six hours,”.

Onkar first made it to the Guinness Book of World Records at a young age of seven, for being the ‘World’s Youngest Webmaster (male)’ after building his first website. 

Further, he also holds a world record for being the Youngest EMF Researcher in the world recently, and he also became the World’s Youngest Theoretical author at the age of 12 after publishing his book 'When The Time Stops.'

He has also founded two companies — Batra Technologies in 2018 and United India Publishing in 2019. 

Onkar’s interest in computers came from his father who works in the IT space.

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Dr. Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi