Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with Nationwide Lecturers Awards winners at his official residence in New Delhi. Picture: YouTube/@NarendraModi through PTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged addressing youngsters’s extreme display time by sports activities and inventive actions throughout a gathering with 82 National Award-winning teachers at his official residence on Friday (September 4, 2026).
He urged lecturers to protect childhood and nurture youngsters’s pure curiosity.
The awardees embrace 48 lecturers from the Division of College Schooling and Literacy, 21 lecturers/school members from greater instructional establishments and polytechnics, and 13 talent trainers from the Ministry of Ability Improvement and Entrepreneurship. The awardees highlighted the experiences and improvements which have formed their educating journey. They shared a number of artistic approaches adopted by them to make classroom studying extra partaking and efficient.
PM Modi emphasised that lecturers must look past the tutorial efficiency of youngsters and be attentive to their behaviour and on a regular basis lives. He famous the decline of conventional joint households, highlighting the rising significance of lecturers in youngsters’s lives. He additionally referred to as for lecturers to be vigilant about adjustments in college students associated to drug use and to assist these fighting habit.
He emphasised that lecturers play an important position in preserving childhood innocence. By nurturing and guiding youngsters’s inherent curiosity, lecturers can vastly contribute to their improvement, he added.
Highlighting the difficulty of extreme display time, he mentioned that it has change into a serious concern. He urged lecturers to talk to folks about how a lot time their youngsters spend on screens and whether or not they proceed utilizing cellphones late at evening. He recommended that youngsters might steadily come out of extreme display use by creating an curiosity in sports activities, bodily video games and inventive actions.
PM Modi referred to the Nationwide Schooling Coverage and burdened the significance of taking youngsters exterior the classroom and connecting them with real-world abilities and types of work. He additionally requested lecturers to transcend imparting information concerning the syllabus and assist inculcate values equivalent to dignity of labour amongst the youngsters.
Revealed – September 05, 2026 11:21 am IST
