As PM Modi spoke of development, he mentioned one name in particular which has set a buzz amongst everyone. He said there are countless such people in India.
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The Alwar-based government teacher developed interest in web designing and started creating apps with the help of books and other guidances as he had not taken any formal education in Computer Science.
By Imran’s own admission, his app journey began at a time when he didn’t even know what the word stood for.
“Since I am a teacher, my focus was on educational sector”.
This came to the notice of Ashutosh AT Padnekar, the Collector of Alwar, who then asked him to try his hand at making apps. “To confirm this, I watched the Prime Minister’s speech on YouTube….watched it again and again to confirm….reconfirm it…he was mentioning me”, Imran Khan told IANS on the phone on Saturday, a day after Modi’s address. “When my younger brother was pursuing engineering, I learned to develop websites from him”. After completing his Class XII with Mathematics in 1996, Imran enrolled in a School Teaching Course and got his first job as a government teacher in 1999.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi, who was addressing the Indian diaspora at the Wembley Stadium in London, stated that he was positive of India’s brilliant future as a result of his imaginative and prescient of India, was the India of Imran Khan who created and gave schooling apps free of charge; and of the Sarpanch who had conceived ‘ Selfie with Daughter’.
Though Mr Khan is a Sanskrit teacher, he has developed more than 50 apps which are highly useful in education, especially in learning English, Hindi, General Knowledge and Maths, BSNL Bhopal’s General Manager Mahesh Shukla said. The most popular among them, the general science app in Hindi has over 500,000 downloads and 18 million screen views.
Further appreciating his efforts, BSNL, on directions of Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, shall now be providing free Internet to Mr. Khan.
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State-run BSNL felicitated the teacher for his good work and gifted him a lifetime free broadband connection.
