Modi ‘PR’ Trumps Scholarships as Government Spends Rs 62 Crore on Pariksha Pe Charcha
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 08 January 2025 | The Telegraph
The government spent more than ₹62 crore in the last three years on Pariksha Pe Charcha, an annual event in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi advises schoolchildren on exam preparedness.
These three years also saw the suspension of a scholarship awarded to schoolchildren — up to their doctoral programmes — through the National Talent Search Examination. The education ministry has asked the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to put the exam on hold…