Raised in a Delhi slum without enough clean water, Sumit never imagined he would get into university let alone snag a scholarship to do his master’s degree in Australia.

The 21-year-old is now a postgraduate public policy student at the University of Sydney, after which he wants to return to India to work as a policy analyst in the corporate world. Sumit, whose father is a tailor and mother a housewife in Tigri in southern Delhi, was the first person in his family to go to university.