After listening to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for two hours, the students of the Government schools will be bound to sit in their classrooms to listen to President Pranab Mukherjee teachings at Sarvodhya Vidyalaya in President's Estate on Teachers’ Day on Friday.
While the PM will be interacting with children at Manekshaw Hall and through satellite link at National Infomatics Centres throughout the country for two hours from 9.45 am, the President will take class from 11.55 am till 12.55 am. After the President is through with the students, he will interact with the teachers from 1 pm to 1.45 pm at the same venue.
Modi's interaction will be telecast live on DD-National, DD News, DD-India and All India Radio. It will be streamed live on the websites of the PMO, Doordarshan and Union Human Resource Development Ministry's YouTube channel. The city administration is also making arrangements for showing the live coverage of the President's event.
The AAP Government has even instructed the heads of departments of aided and unaided Government schools and the ones run by municipal bodies, NDMC and Cantonment Board to make necessary arrangements for showing live coverage of the PM's interaction. Standing instructions have been issued to HODs to make available requisite number of TV sets, set-top box connections, projectors, amplifiers, and generator sets.
If the said gadgets are not available with the schools, they have been instructed to hire the same for the day.
The schools have also been told that they should serve the Mid Day meal for the students of the morning shift.
In her order, director education Padmini Singhla has said since the students attending second shift would not be able to watch the live telecast of the President in their respective schools, the HODs should encourage them to watch the same at their respective home.