Omkar Dattatray
The Prime minister Narendra Modi’s unique interactive program with students, Pariksha Pe Charcha [PPC], was back with its 9th edition on Friday, 6th February at 10 am to discussed exam stress and celebrate examinations as an Utsav and an integral part of life. Examinations should not be taken as worrisome but as a mirror of life and should be regarded as inseparable part of the student’s life and as an enjoyment. There should be no examination stress, tension among the students writing the examination. Modi’s Pariksha Pe Charcha 2026 focused on stress -free exams, learning, and student well-being. It is a flagship student interaction program. The interactive program continues to serve as a powerful platform where students, parents, and teachers from across India came together and discussed examinations, academic pressure, and holistic learning. With the board examinations approaching and at places begun, PPC 2026 aims to motivate students, encourage confidence, and reduce exam-related stress and tension. The nationwide live telecast featured PM Modi responding directly to students, questions and offered practical advice on exam preparation, time management, mental well- being, and maintaining focus during the crucial exam season. Over the years, Pariksha Pe Charchah emerged as a key national education event, widely followed by CBSE, ICSE, and state board students. Participation in PPC 2026 has reached a historic high, surpassing the 2025 Guinness World Record. This year alone, more than 4.5 crore students, parents, and teachers registered for the program, underlining its growing relevance in India’s education ecosystem. This year’s PPC featured very interesting topics relating to examinations, notably the need to remain stress-free, focus on learning and more. PM Modi posted on X. “This is a platform I have always enjoyed ,as it gives me an opportunity to interact with bright minds from across the country. 2026 PPC theme includes Make Exam as, Contribution of our freedom fighters a celebration, Save the Environment & Clean India. Aligned with NEP 2020, PPC Focused on transforming the exam experience into a positive, confidence -building journey. The initiative promotes mental well-being, creativity, and lifelong learning, encouraging students to view examinations as a celebration or Festival rather than a burden. Prime minister Narendra Modi has once again interacted with the students, teachers, parents and initiated his Pariksha Pe Charcha 2026. The interaction every youngster was waiting for its back Pariksha Pe Charcha programme with Prime minister .Students should leave stress and nervousness behind and get ready to set those butterflies in your stomach free. On popular demand, this time ,the prime minister’s massively popular interaction will not only have students but also parents and teachers and thus this time made a departure from only students participating in the popular programme. Pariksha Pe Charcha is part of the larger movement –Exam Warriors led by prime minister Narendra Modi, to create a stress –free atmosphere for youngsters. It is a movement that is driven by the prime minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bring together students, parents and teachers and society to foster an environment where the unique individuality of each child is celebrated, encouraged and allowed to express itself fully inspiring this movement is PM Modi’s path breaking, bestselling book ‘Exam Warriors.’. Through this book PM outlined a refreshing approach to education, knowledge and holistic development of students are given primary importance. The PM urges everyone to put exams in the right perspective, rather than making it a life and death situation by undue stress and pressure. Learning should be an enjoyable, fulfilling and endless journey-this is the message of PM Modi’s book. How do you (a student, parent or teacher) get a chance to participate in the ninth edition of Priksha Pe Charcha? It is very simple, following are the steps—Participate in Priksha pa charcha competition hosted by MyGov innovate platform. Remember, the competition is open for school students of classes 6 to 12. Students can submit their responses. Students can also submit their questions to honorable prime minister in a maximum of 500 charcters. Parents and teachers can also participate and submit their entries in the online activities designed exclusively for them. The Exam Warriors module on NaMo App adds an interactive tech element to the Exam Warriors movement .It communicates the core messages of each mantra that PM has written in the book ‘Exam Warriors ’This module is not just for youngsters but also for parents and teachers. Every one can imbibe the mantras and concepts that prime minister wrote in Exam Warriors since each mantra is pictorially represented. The module also has thought provoking but enjoyable activities that help absorb concepts through practical means. Content owned, updated and maintained by the My Gov cell. My Gov platform is designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre and this website belongs to My Gov, ministry of electronics and information technology, government of India. Prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday said trust deficit between parents and children is a serious issue and that the distance created by it can push children into depression. Interacting with students, teachers and parents during annual ‘Priksha pe Charcha’ ,the prime minister said that the trust deficit is never sudden but is result of a long drawn process and requires a deep self analysis of everyone’s conduct, be it teachers, students or parents. Responding to a question by Deepasri a student from Puduchary government Higher Secondary School, who joined the programme via video conferencing, the PM touched upon serious issue of trust deficit in the families and asked parents and teachers to tackle it. Honest communication can reduce the chances of trust deficit. Students should be sincere and honest in their dealings.Similarly parents should also convey their confidence in their children instead of suspicion. The distance created by trust deficit can push students to depression. Teachers should keep the channels of communication open with the students and avoid favoritism. The 9th edition of Prakisha Pe Charcha held Friday in New Delhi, where PM Narendra Modi interacted with the students, teachers and parents, witnessed overwhelming response across the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Special arrangements were made by the school education department in all schools and prominent places to witness the historical event with special screening arrangements made in schools at District headquarters. MP Jugal Kishore, secretary school education Dr Piyush Singla, Project director Samagra Shishka Deep Raj, Director school education Jammu, Ashok Kumar, Director finance, SED Iftikar Hussian ,CEO jammu, besides coordinators /ASC’s and teachers attended the event at teachers Bhawan Jammu. .Dr Singla said that ’Pariksha Pe Charcha’2026 is not just an event, it is a collective commitment for creating a transformative, stress -free educational experience for the students and today’s interaction is a significant step in nurturing an environment where each student can unfold his/her unique potential. He reiterated that this unique initiative of prime minister Modi aims to bring together students, parents, teachers and the society to create an environment that values and supports each child’s unique qualities. The secretary further added that this movement was inspired by PM’s influential and popular book Exam Warrior and strives to cultivate a stress free environment for young minds bringing together students, parents, teachers and the society. PPC gives a platform where the unique individuality of each child is celebrated, encouraged and allowed to express itself fully. To conclude it can be said that the prime ministers Pariksha pe charcha initiative got a good and encouraging response all over the country including Jammu and Kashmir UT and it strives to create a stress free and trust deficit free educational environment where students can grow to the fullest potential and the balanced personalities are formed so that the collective educational efforts can lead to the individual development of each student. Thus a stress free educational atmosphere is sought to be created by this initiative which got tremendous response across the country.
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