New Delhi, September 12 – Over 90 million students from 8.5 lakh schools participated in the special Teachers’ Day programme where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed students and teachers across the country, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said on Thursday.
“According to the information received by various states, over 8.5 lakh schools participated in the programme on Sep 5. According to the data made available until now, 9,51,51,534 students participated the programme,” she said.
Irani was responding to a query on the number of students who attended the programme at a press conference highlighting the ministry’s initiatives in the first 100 days here.
In the first such mass connect with students and teachers across the nation, Modi first addressed the students at the Manekshaw centre in Delhi, and then took questions from them live as well as through video conferencing on the occasion on Teachers’ Day.
-INDIA TODAY
