Schools ready for PM telecast on Teachers’ Day
The city administration has made elaborate arrangements for the successful live telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with schoolchildren on the Teachers’ Day — from hiring TVs on rent to buying antennas. Delhi chief secretary D. M. Spolia in a meeting with all the stakeholders, directed the Directorate of Education ( DoE), all the municipal corporations and New Delhi Municipal Council to make all the necessary arrangements for the live broadcast of the interaction.
On September 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with a 1,000 schoolchildren from various schools in Delhi for an hour and 45 minutes. This session will be shown live virtually in every government and private school and adult education centre in the country on TV, radio and the Internet.
Mr Modi will meet the students, drawn from all grades between 1 to 12, at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi Cantonment between 3 pm and 4.45 pm. The EDUSAT system, wherever available, will be utilised. Websites of the HRD ministry and all state governments’ education departments are expected to stream the programme.
According to sources, the chief secretary has directed all the schools in the city to send a report on the number of students who will watch the live telecast at 3 pm on the day. A similar direction has been issued for the schools under the DoE.
The government and municipal schools plan to telecast the PM’s interaction live on TV sets and the timings of the schools have been changed accordingly. All the single shift schools on the Teachers’ Day will start around 12.30 Pm and will end at around 5 pm. Timing of mid- day meal distribution has been also changed for a day in the municipal schools.
Television sets will be hired or arranged from the houses of teachers or principal staying close to school. For live telecast, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation ( NDMC) has purchased TV antenna from Bhagirath Palace in Chandni Chowk.
Additional commission- er ( education), NDMC, M. S. A. Khan told this newspaper that the civic body has directed its schools to telecast the Prime Minister’s interaction in the school auditorium or the biggest room in the school. “Timings of single shift school have accordingly been changed and mid- day meals will be distributed accordingly,” Mr Khan added. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has also has directed school principals to make arrangements for TVs, LCDs, screens and set- top boxes from annual fund sanctioned for petty expenses.