“Hashtag without filter”: Narendra Modi addresses 200 students during ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020’ in New Delhi

Reaching out
to students in their own language, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday
addressed 200 of them during a “Pariksha Pe Charcha” and said his
conversations with them will be “hashtag without filter”.

Assuring
students of his complete focus, Modi said they could speak to him openly.
“Speak to me hashtag without filter,” he said at the interaction held
at the Talkatora Stadium in Delhi.

Modi said
everyone should keep abreast of the latest technology but it should not be
allowed to govern lives.

“We
should have the strength to keep technology under our control and ensure it does
not waste our time. One room in our homes should be technology-free. Whoever
enters will not carry any gadgets,” he told students while stressing that
exams are not everything.

The prime
minister also urged students to spend their spare time with the elderly.

He also said
students should not be afraid of failure and take it as a part of life.

“Was
told I shouldn’t attend Chandrayaan landing as there was no guarantee of
success but I needed to be there,” the prime minister said.

Good marks
in exams are not everything, he told the students in the interaction. “We
have to come out of the thinking that exams are everything,” the prime
minister said.

The Prime
Minister also highlighted the importance of taking on extra-curricular
activities and said there is a growing tendency among parents to push their
children into activities considered “glamorous”.

“Parents
should take time out to find out what their children want to do instead of
pushing them into activities that are considered glamorous which they can
discuss in their conversations with their friends,” he said.