Imran Khan and his apps that PM Modi loves
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=gktalk%20imaran
Last night at London's Wembley Stadium while talking about his idea of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a shout out to Imran Khan, a teacher from Rajasthan. The reason? Mr Khan is a 37-year-old teacher tirelessly pursuing the task of making education more accessible to everyone. While he teaches Sanskrit and is an employee of Rajasthan government, he has also created over 50 free apps on subjects such as general knowledge and English for Android users.
"In Rajasthan's Alwar there is a man called Imran Khan. He has made 50 mobile apps. And Alwar's Imran Khan dedicated those apps to the students for free," Modi said in London. "My India is in that Imran Khan from Alwar."
As for Khan, he says on his portal that his intent is to help Hindi medium students. "I am Imran Khan, a teacher in Sanskrit Education Department from Rajasthan. GKTalk is my web portal for educational purpose to provide a support to Hindi medium students," he writes on his web portal.
While Khan's apps have basic design and fairly basic content, it is apparent that the app users like them. Almost all of his apps on the Play store have a rating of four stars or more. Sunil Kumavat, who tried the app called RAS Tutor, writes in his review, "Very impressive and useful for all competitive exam. Really thanks... Imaran sir."
Khan's apps have been downloaded by over two millions of Android users.
Imran apparently started the software development in 2005. According to a report by Hindustan Times, Khan read some of the IT books left behind at home by his brother and he found interesting. "My younger brother, Idrees, left his books at home after he bagged a job at a Gurgaon software firm. He had completed his B Tech in Computer Science from the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Alwar. As I was free after school, I began looking up those books. I learnt HTML and designed a website," he told the newspaper.
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