Background
Khan, who is of Meo ethnicity, was born on May 12, 1978 in Khareda in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, India.
Khan, who is of Meo ethnicity, was born on May 12, 1978 in Khareda in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, India.
He is a mathematics teacher in the Sanskrit Education Department and a self-taught computer programmer. He has developed over fifty-two educational mobile applications and more than a hundred websites. He gained prominence after being mentioned by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, in a speech at Wembley Stadium, London, in November 2015.
Modi said, "My India is in Imran Khan of Alwar."
When he was a student, Khan wanted to be a scientist
In 1999, Khan became a third-grade government teacher after completing a two-year teaching course. He worked in Kota for four years, before being transferred to Jaton Ka Bas.
Programming and web development
in Computer Science. He designed GKtalk.com, a general knowledge-related website, in 2005.
He was introduced to app development by Alwar"s then district collector Ashutosh AT Pednekar.
With 5-10 Lakh installs and 5,898 reviews, General Science in Hindi is the most-downloaded of Khan"s apps. Khan has donated all his applications to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Ministry of Human Resource Development) as a patriotic contribution to Digital India. He has developed over fifty-two educational mobile applications and designed more than a hundred websites.
Khan indicated that he would continue developing applications for other regional languages as well.
Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, mentioned Khan during his speech at Wembley Stadium, London, in November 2015. Against a backdrop of news media debates about intolerance in India, Modi said that India is beyond news headlines and is much bigger than what people see on television, adding, "My India resides in people like Imran Khan from Alwar".
Khan expressed his happiness over Modi"s admiration of his "small effort". Soon afterwards, Khan was given free Internet service by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.
Ministry of Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani tweeted that Khan has done a "stupendous job".
Khan also received a call from the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, who congratulated him. Bharatiya Janata Party state president Ashok Parnami assured Khan of assistance with apps under development. Rajasthan"s Technical and Higher Education Minister Kali Charan Saraf gave Khan ₹11,000 (United States$160).
He also offered him the post of project officer in the Department of Science and Technology, but Khan "politely turned down" the offer.