It was Teachers’ Day with a difference. None of the students expected to listen to such an interesting interactive session with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While some of them were awed by the pleasant experience the others wished that they were included in the link up.
Students gave thumbs up response to the PM’s speech and termed it very impressive and inspirational. Students liked his slogan ‘Students can become the Prime Minister’ and his mantra of working hard to achieve success. Good number of the students attended the special screening of the PM’s Teachers’ Day address to students at their schools.
The students listened to PM’s speech carefully and hailed it a lot. The students praised his idea of providing good facilities at the schools especially for the girl students.
“He spoke much about improving the education standard and amenities at the schools. He emphasized on the need of separate toilets for girls in every school. I praise this idea of the prime minister. There is a need to pay attention on the infrastructure related facilities at the schools,” said a class IX student of Rani laxmi Bai Memorial School, Pooja Agarwal.
She said that if she had been given a chance to ask a question from the PM, she would have asked him about the safety of women especially the girl students in the nation.A student of class VIII at CMS Indira Nagar branch, Joy Banerjee said that PM’s address to the students was remarkable and different. It was nice to listen to him talking about his childhood.
“Instead of being monotonous Narendra Modi’s address was inspiring and interesting. His speech filled us with energy to achieve our goals. He motivated us to work hard and make continuous efforts until success is achieved,” said Joy adding that the PM’s idea that ‘students can become prime minister’ was different and motivating.
Given a chance to ask a question from Narendra Modi, I would have asked him about the change he witnessed in his life style from a tea seller to a prime minister, wished Joy.A student of class VII Aryan at lucknow Public Collegiate said: “I was overwhelmed while seeing PM communicating with the students. This quality makes Narendra Modi different from other politicians. I wish I could have been among the students who had direct interaction with the PM. I would have asked him about the role of the students in the growth of our nation.”
The students were elated when the Prime Minister shared his childhood experiences with them. “Sharing his experience PM in his address said that he was a very naughty kid in his childhood. He advised us not to do this and respect our teachers and elders. I wanted to ask him about his mantra behind his success,” said Abhishek Singh a student of CMS Indira Nagar Branch.
A student of CMS class VIII Indira Nagar branch, Devesh Singh exclaimed with joy when was aksed about his experience of listening to the PM’s address. He expressed his wish to ask Narendra Modi about his priorities about making the nation economically and scientifically developed.
The students of the City Montessori School eagerly listened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi via live telecast of Doordarshan in the afternoon and were highly influenced with his thoughts. The school had put up gigantic lED screens on all its campuses through which the students listened to the views of the Prime Minister and derived motivation. The students were highly enthusiastic for this interaction with the Prime Minister. The main celebration was held at the Gomti Nagar (Campus I) auditorium of the school where they remained glued to the gigantic lED screen to listen to the Prime Minister. The teachers were also overwhelmed on listening to the Prime Minister.