New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS): Nearly all students who interacted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Teachers’ Day were from government schools, including those from far-flung areas like Leh, Dantewada and Tinsukia.

While some of the government schools were the Sarvodaya and Kendriya Vidyalayas, which are considered top-rung among government schools, many smaller schools were represented as well.

Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Dwarka, Government Senior Secondary School, Pitampura, and a government school from Moti Bagh were among the schools in Delhi that were represented at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi Cantt. from where the prime minister interacted with the students across the country.

In the first such mass connect with students and teachers across the nation, Prime Minister Modi first addressed the students and then took questions from the students – live as well as through video conferencing.

The children were visibly excited at getting an opportunity to meet the prime minister.

Students from various government schools in areas like Moti Bagh, R.K. Puram, Dwarka in south Delhi and Pitampura in north Delhi attended the event that was telecast live on Doordarshan and the human resource development ministry website and also live streamed.

Ahead of Modi's address, some students recalled the contribution of India's second president, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a great scholar whose birth anniversary has been traditionally celebrated as Teachers' Day, but never with so much of enthusiasm, involvement and prime ministerial participation.

Students recalled Radhakrishnan's simplicity, scholarship and service to the nation and were also blessed by the prime minister with a gift of a copy of the Bhagavad Gita.