Centre Pushes Viksit Bharat Drives in Schools as Pre-Exam Activity Load Sparks Concern
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 13 January 2026 | The Telegraph
The Centre wants school students, busy preparing for annual and board exams, to participate in activities centred on Viksit Bharat and Operation Sindoor in the run-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme on exam stress.
Instructed by the education ministry, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday wrote to all 31,000 affiliated schools to hold a series of activities from January 12-23. Modi’s Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC), an interactive programme, is scheduled to be held in the last week of this month….