Pariksha Pe Charcha with PM Narendra Modi: Student passes with flying colours

HYDERABAD: Class IX student R Aksharasiri couldn’t believe her luck. The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya student from Rangareddy district was in awe as Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with her on Friday.
Aksharasiri was among other students across the country who took part in the Pariksha Pe Charcha interactice programme with the PM. To a question from Aksharasiri, Modi encouraged her and other students to learn at least one regional language other than mother tongue.

He was responding to questions from R Aksharasiri and Ritika, a class XII student from Madhyamik Vidyalaya in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The students were asking the PM about different languages, how to learn more languages, master them and how they can benefit them in the long run. “Speaking to people in their own language will give them immense satisfaction and will immediately strike a chord,” the PM told them.
While elucidating on the importance of regional languages, the PM also gave an example of an eight-year-old migrant worker’s daughter from Gujarat who learnt to speak Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi and other languages.
“The girl was able to speak so many languages because she lived with several neighbours and picked up their languages. Every Indian should be proud of their native tongue and learning a new one does not have to interfere with daily life,” Modi said, drawing a loud round of applause from the students during the interactive session.
Modi also emphasised how people from north India eat south Indian cuisine and vice-versa. “The oldest language on the planet, Tamil, is something the nation and we all Indians should be proud of,” he said. State BJP unit president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union tourism minister G Kishan Reddy, Telangana affairs in-charge Tarun Chugh and other leaders also took part in the programe along with students from a city-based school. Sanjay advised the students not to succumb to peer pressure and to take it as a challenge to excel.
State BJP leaders were instructed to take Pariksha Pe Charcha campaign to the grassroots level, involving students from all over the state. Multiple screens were set up in many schools to air the programme. Sources said this was the first time the state unit has gone big on the programme, which is now into its sixth edition. PM Modi shares important tips to students and teachers during the programme.