PM interacts with Bal Puraskar awardees, youngsters search steering from him on challenges – The Dispatch

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday interacted with winners of the ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ and mentioned points reminiscent of tackling stigma round psychological well being and the issues confronted by youngsters.

Modi interacted with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) awardees at his residence, 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, right here. He advised the awardees to start out by fixing small issues, step by step construct capability, improve functionality and develop confidence to resolve larger issues as they go forward in life, a press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Workplace (PMO) mentioned.

Discussing the difficulty of psychological well being and issues confronted by youngsters, the prime minister talked about tackling the stigma across the situation and the necessary position of household in tackling such issues.

A number of different matters had been additionally taken up by Prime Minister Modi in the course of the interplay, together with the advantages of taking part in Chess, taking on artwork and tradition as a profession, analysis and innovation, spirituality, amongst others, the assertion mentioned.

The prime minister additionally offered souvenirs to all of the awardees and mentioned their achievements on a one-to-one foundation, which was adopted by interplay with the whole group. He engaged in an open-hearted interplay in a casual setting, the assertion mentioned.

The youngsters requested him varied questions concerning the challenges they face and sought his steering on a wide range of matters, it added. The Authorities of India has been conferring the ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ to youngsters for his or her distinctive achievement in six classes particularly innovation, social service, scholastic, sports activities, artwork and tradition and bravado. Every awardee is given a medal, a money prize of Rs 1 Lakh and a certificates.

This yr, 11 youngsters from throughout the nation, beneath totally different classes of Bal Shakti Puraskar, have been chosen for PMRBP.

The awardees, belonging to 11 states and UTs, embrace six boys and 5 women — Aadithya Suresh, M Gauravi Reddy, Shreya Bhattacharjee, Sambhab Mishra, Rohan Ramchandra Bahir, Aditya Pratap Singh Chauhan, Rishi Shiv Prasanna, Anoushka Jolly, Hanaya Nisar, Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi and Shauryajit Ranjitkumar Khaire.