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| Rajasthan teacher Imran Khan who inspires Modi's idea of India |
November 14, 2015, NewsCrunch
On Friday night, at his Wembley speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the success of Imran Khan, a web developer from Alwar, making him nationally famous.
Imran Khan, a math teacher from Rajasthan, has developed over 50 education apps which he has given away for free, Modi noted in his speech before a 60,000 strong audience.
These apps have been downloaded by 2.5 million users and clocked screen views up to 18 million. His most popular app is the General Science in Hindi, which has seen 500,000 downloads.
The usage data is not sketchy as Imran Khan learnt discovered Google Analytics only recently.
The Hindustan Times ran a profile of him recently possibly bringing him to Modi's attention.
Imran Khan did a two-year basic teacher training course and became a government teacher in 1999.
His brother, a B Tech in Computer Science, moved to Gurgaon after he got a job but left behind his books, which got Imran Khan going. He started with HTML, built a few websites and then went on for more complex stuff, including PHP and My SQl.
Noticing his work, a Deputy Commissioner of Alwar got him to build a government website. He also asked him to develop apps. Till the IAS officer showed Imran Khan apps on his iPad, he had not seen one.
As they say, there was not turning back for Imran Khan after that.