A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's praise of Alwar based teacher Imran Khan for his mobile apps at Wembley, the Government reached out and gave him free broadband connection.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday called up Khan to congratulate him, while BSNL officials visited his house and presented free broadband connection.
Praising Khan, the Minister said the government continues to help people who are innovative.
Resident of Laxmi Nagar in Rajasthan’s Alwar, Khan developed 52 mobile applications on various subjects under education category since 2012 and donated them to the government for use by students and teachers.
The 37-year-old teaches mathematics at Sanskrit secondary School in Alwar and has no computer science or engineering background.
Narrating Khan’s story to a mesmorised Indian diaspora at Wembley on Friday during his on-going UK visit, Modi said: “My India resides in people like Imran Khan.”
Pointing out that his apps have reached three crore people, Khan credited his techie brother for helping him learn app building. His interest in software development began in 2005, when he developed ‘www.gktalks.com’ to answer general knowledge questions.
Khan donated all his apps to Human Resource development (HRD) ministry after Union minister Smriti Irani praised his talent and sought his apps for the common good of the country at a recent event in Delhi.
Khan said his apps, available on Google Play, attracted 18 million screen views in July.
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