Don't make kids instruments of fulfilling your dreams, says PM Modi

Parikasha Pe Charcha: 'Parents shouldn't pressurise students, life's long'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told students on Wednesday not to fear exams but to see them as a test to improve themselves, and said social and family environment at times create pressure around students that is not desirable. 

Interacting with students virtually in his annual ‘Parikasha Pe Charcha’ programme, he said they sometime become over conscious regarding exams and asked them to take them as a small destination in their long lives. If external pressure is not created, then students will not feel pressure of exams and their confidence will also grow, he said. 

While acknowledging that one cannot be good in