Meet Imran Khan, the man PM Modi hailed in Wembley address

“I am happy that BSNL has made a decision to provide free internet to Imran Khan”, the telecom minister said.

“It was a small step taken by me as a teacher”.

Imran forayed into the world of app development with a science app for NCERT to help students of class 9, after which there was no turning back. “You will not believe that since yesterday evening I have not been able to eat food….there are media persons….my friends….my relatives calling up….coming to meet me….absolutely no food since yesterday evening”, said a happy Imran.

Imran Khan has turned into an overnight celebrity but says that he plans to continue developing educational apps, especially in regional languages which can help more people. “In Rajasthan’s Alwar there is a man called Imran Khan”.

Mr Khan, who introduces himself as an app developer on his website, has no formal training in computers.

Khan has created 42 Android apps and counting, in just three years. When I met the then district collector of my area he told me to develop apps as he said that future will belong to mobile apps, reports IANS.

What’s more, he donates his apps for free to all students, in order to make them accessible to all.

Learning about HTML from there, he tried his hand at designing his website GKTalk back in 2005. “The then district collector of Alwar, Ashutosh AT Pednekar, saw my website and sent for me”.

A teacher at Alwar’s Varishth Upadhyay Sanskrit school, Mr. Khan is also a member of Alwar-based team EKTA which works towards strengthening elementary education.

After Modi praised Imran’s work in his speech yesterday, he got numerous calls, including from Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, BJP State President Ashok Parnami and others.

“After reading a few books that had chapters on apps, I started to develop mobile apps and since 2012 I have developed 52”, he said. Of all the apps he has made so far, General Science in Hindi is the top grosser, with around 500,000 downloads.