Pariksha Pe Charcha 2024: PM Narendra Modi says there should never be trust deficit between students and their parents

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2024 (PPC2024) key takeaways, highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the importance of trust between students and their parents, while interacting with students and teachers at the government's annual 'Pariksha Pe Charcha' event organised in the recently-opened Bharat Mandapam convention centre in New Delhi's Pragati Maidan on Monday, January 29. "There should be no trust deficit between children and parents," the PM said at the mega event, a unique initiative to cope with examination stress amongst the students.

The Prime Minister said that parents should not treat their child's report card as their own visiting card, and stressed the importance of instilling resilience in children to help them cope with pressure. He also asserted that parents and teachers should collectively address challenges faced by students.

"We cannot do 'switch off', pressure is gone. One must become capable of bearing any kind of pressure. They should believe that pressure keeps on building, and one has to prepare oneself," said the PM, speaking at the seventh edition of the interaction programme with school students, teachers and parents.

Parents should not make report cards of their children as their visiting card. pic.twitter.com/Y75KDAxdD3

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 29, 2024

To date, the Pariksha Pe Charcha 2024 event has recorded more than one crore registrations on the government's MyGov portal, reflecting the extensive enthusiasm among students nationwide to participate and interact with the Prime Minister.

Here are some highlights of what the PM said at the 2024 edition of the popular event:

• A healthy body is crucial for a healthy mind and it requires some routines, spending time in sunlight and getting regular and complete sleep.
• To maintain a balanced lifestyle, excess of everything should be avoided.
• Habits like screen time are eating into the required sleep time, which is considered very important by modern health science
• We should develop the habit of being decisive.
• One should not remain in confusion. If there is any confusion then we should talk about it and resolve it and move ahead
• Compete with yourself, not others.
• Parents should stop pressurising children.
• Parents should avoid 'running commentary' which creates pressure on students
• Parents shouldn't treat their child's report card as their visiting card

• I challenge every challenge and evolve new strategies
• Always make friends who are more intelligent and work harder, you must be inspired by such friends
• A lot of parents keep on giving examples of other children to their children; parents should avoid doing these things
• We have also seen that those parents who have not been very successful in their lives have nothing to say or want to tell the world about their successes and achievements, make the report card of their children as their own visiting card; whenever they meet someone, they will tell them the story of their children
• You must not compare one child with another as that can be detrimental to their future

Practice the writing of answers as much as possible. If you have that practice, the majority of exam hall stress will go away. pic.twitter.com/2kAsFiDo6m

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) January 29, 2024

What is the Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) event?

This unique interactive program is conceptualised by the Prime Minister wherein students, parents, and teachers from across the nation as well as from overseas interact with him to discuss anxieties related to examinations and life after school. The annual event, which is estimated to see participation of nearly 4,000 individuals in 2024, has been organised successfully for the last six years by the Department of School Education & Literacy under the Ministry of Education.

Join Pariksha Pe Charcha! Great to connect with students from across the country. https://t.co/VtScC14nVz

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 29, 2024

'Pariksha Pe Charcha' is part of the larger movement, ‘Exam Warriors’, led by the Prime Minister to create a stress-free atmosphere for youngsters.