Expounding his vision of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today recalled Imran Khan of Alwar, Rajasthan, who has made about 50 education apps and distributed them for free.
He also recalled a Sarpanch in Haryana, who had responded to his Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao call with a ‘Selfie with Daughter’ campaign, which eventually became a global success.
Prime Minister Modi, who was addressing the Indian diaspora at the Wembley Stadium here, said that he was sure of India’s bright future because his vision of India, was the India of Imran Khan who created and gave education apps for free; and of the Sarpanch who had conceived ‘ Selfie with Daughter’.
Imran Khan, a 34-year-old mathematics teacher at a government Sanskrit senior secondary school in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, has created 42 Android apps and counting.
He developed his first app – the NCERT Learn Science – for the Class 9 students in 2012. Of all the apps he has made so far, General Science in Hindi is the top grosser, with around 500,000 downloads.