New Delhi: Imran Khan, a 34-year-old mathematics teacher in Rajasthan's Alwar, made it to the headlines after Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned him in his Wembley Stadium address on Friday.
The Prime Minister hailed Khan for distributing 52 education apps for free and said that 'My India resides in people like Imran Khan'.
When Khan was contacted, he thanked the Prime Minister for acknowledging his effort in contributing a 'little' in India's growth story.
"It was a small step taken by me as a teacher. It is a big thing for me that our Prime Minister has praised me," he said.
Khan, a teacher at a government Sanskrit senior secondary school in Alwar, said that software should be provided in the regional languages 'if we want to spread the Digital Indian Mission to the rural areas as well'.
"As a part of Digital India mission, we should provide tablets, computers and other IT tools to the rural areas. The software installed in those gadgets should be available in the regional languages. Many good types of software are available in English but to extend their reach to the villages, they should be provided in regional languages like Hindi, etc as well," he said.
Khan had developed his first app - the NCERT Learn Science - for the Class 9 students in 2012.
Khan has created 42 Android apps and counting, in just three years. While these apps have been downloaded by 2.5 million users until now, the screen views alone have come up to 18 million.
Of all the apps he has made so far, General Science in Hindi is the top grosser, with around 500,000 downloads.
Khan, who did a two-year basic teacher training course after his senior secondary degree, became a third-grade government teacher in 1999.
