Modi's Hindi speech left students in dark
Source: The Sangai Express

Lamka, September 05 2014 : The government may have a decent reason in instructing schools to let their students listen to the Prime Minister's Teacher's day speech Live but the exercise simply ended up dumping the state's students in the dark as little, if not none, of them, understood Hindi � Modi's chosen language for the nationwide address.

Under the instruction of 'higher authorities' government schools here went all the way to ensure that the Prime Minister's speech, which began hours after normal school hours, was telecast Live before the students.

The exercise however painted an upsetting note as students could not understand what Modi spoke, leaving their teachers scrapping for means to soothe their students.

A photographer who was assign to cover the special event said, 'it doesn't appear to me that the students understand a thing' .

He claimed that some schools have initially broadcast different channels before the PM speech and continued doing so even after the speech commences as the students couldn't understand what was being spoken.

'As the students are uninterested in speech they don't understand, their teachers have no option but to revert back to pre-speech channels to keep their students intact,' the photographer added.

A local reporter who covered the event said he saw many schools resorting to alternate forms of entertainment to keep their students upbeat, 'Initially they telecast the Prime Minister's speech.

But as it progressed, the students can't help but laugh as they don't understand what he said.

I believe all the schools had experience the same thing' .

Headmaster of a private institution said, that he made no arrangement for the Prime Minister's speech to be telecast live for his students as it was too late and would make no sense as almost none will understand what the PM spoke.

He nevertheless claimed that he watched the event with the school teachers further adding that the speech needed a frequent intervention even to them, as the teacher themselves don't properly understand what Modi spoke on many occasions.

When asked how many of his students would have understood the PM's Hindi speech, he was quick to chip in a 0.2 percent.

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