Stay away from mobile phones, get great discounts and scholarships.

UAE-based technology company Lock & Stock has launched a project in Pakistan to improve the lives of students.

Lock & Stock is a free mobile app that encourages students to keep their mobile phones locked and in return offers them various financial and educational benefits and discounts.

Students get a 'key' per minute to keep the phone off, through which they can not only get discounts on food, entertainment and various brands, but also get scholarships to the world's leading universities. Can do

In addition, this 'key' can also provide opportunities for students to get jobs and internships in various institutions.

According to the report, the app was launched in Dubai in 2017 and since then more than 50,000 students have been offline for a total of 558 years.

Nowadays, spending hours in front of the screen of mobile phones has become an addiction and this 'digital' addiction has also spread among the students and especially the students between the ages of 16 to 18 spend hundreds of hours on smartphones. ۔

"Our goal is to improve the lives of students and we want to fight digital addiction around the world," said Craig Fernandez, a 23-year-old co-founder and CEO of Lock & Stock.

The idea for the project came to Craig Fernandez during a lecture on economics in 2017 while he was studying at the University of Iowa in the United States.

The Lock & Stock app's programming tracks the student's time away from the smartphone and blocks notifications from social media apps so the student can spend time on other activities of their choice.

In this app, students also compete to stay offline for the longest time. The student who stays away from mobile phone for the longest time is rewarded every week.

Students can avail discounts and other offers by turning off or away from their smartphones while a scholarship platform has also been introduced for students.

Through this app, students can connect to the platforms of more than 400 universities around the world, where students are offered services in exchange for university fees and assistance when they are away from phones.

Through Lock & Stock in 2019, students saved more than 5 500,000 in scholarships and fee discounts, while so far this year students have received a total of more than لاکھ 1 million in scholarships.

The Lock & Stock app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and App Store.