Bhubaneswar: Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced on Tuesday that the 6th edition of Prime Minister’s Interaction Programme with school students, teachers and parents “Pariksha Pe Charcha 2023” will be held on January 27 at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceptualised this unique interactive programme – “Pariksha Pe Charcha” – wherein students, parents, and teachers from across the nation and also overseas interact with him to discuss anxieties related to examinations and life after school. The event seeks to help in overcoming stress in order to celebrate life as an Utsav.
This event was organised successfully for the last five years by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education.
For “Pariksha Pe Charcha” 2023, students, teachers and parents have enthusiastically participated in big numbers from state boards, CBSE, KVS, NVS and other boards. Registrations have more than doubled this year compared to the year 2022.
About 38.80 lakh participants (students- 31.24 lakhs, teachers – 5.60 lakhs, parents – 1.95 lakhs) have registered for “Pariksha Pe Charcha” 2023 compared to about 15.7 lakhs in the previous edition. Students from over 150 countries, teachers from 51 countries and parents from 50 countries have also registered for the event this year.
The programme is proposed to be in a town hall type format, as in the year 2022, while adhering to the Covid-19 protocols, as determined by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India from time to time. An online creative writing competition was conducted at https://innovateindia.mygov.in/ppc-2023/ on various topics between 25th November and 30th December 2022 to select participants (school students of Classes 9 to 12, teachers and parents) on a bouquet of themes.
About 2050 participants selected through the creative writing competitions on MyGov will be presented with a special “Pariksha Pe Charcha” kit comprising of Exam Warriors book in Hindi and English, written by the Prime Minister, and a certificate. Some of the questions by the participants, to be selected by NCERT, may feature in “Pariksha Pe Charcha” 2023.
