A 12-year-old from Haryana developed three learning apps all by himself with only YouTube for guidance and created a Guinness World Record by becoming the youngest app developer in the world.

Kartikeya Jakhar, Class 8 student of Jhajjar’s Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, said his farmer father Ajit Singh, had bought him mobile phone worth Rs 10,000 to help him with online classes during the pandemic, but he soon began to face problems with it.

“The mobile phone had many issues as it used to hang during the coding process. With the help of You Tube, I fixed the phone and continued with my studies," Jakhar said.

"I made three apps -- the first was related to General Knowledge named Lucent GK online. The second was Ram Kartik Learning Centre that teaches coding and graphic designing and the third was Shri Ram Kartik Digital Education. Now, these apps are offering free training to over 45,000 students."

According to reports, the boy also won a scholarship after clearing the entrance exam of BSc in Computer Science at Harvard University.

Ratinder Singh , Block education officer / Principal Matanhail said A little boy from class 8, son of a farmer, from village Jhanswa of our Block Matanhail who has developed three learning applications without any guidance, has undoubtedly created a history.

This is notable that when whole world was under the threat of Corona Pandemic and people were dying of this Pandemic, the little boy, the son of a farmer, was working hard to serve the nation.
He has also registered himself in the Guinness Book of World Record for his outstanding record. These apps are providing free training to more than 45000 students at present and he has more than 50000 followers so far. I, personally, and on the behalf of all the education fraternity, congratulate him, his father and his whole family for this outstanding achievement. He has glorified not only his village, district and states but also the whole nation.

I also give my best wishes to Kartikey Jakhar, the son of a farmer for his future.