PM interacts with students returning from Ukraine, in Varanasi.
Varanasi (UP):
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed previous governments for a large number of Indian students going abroad to study medicine and insisted that his school was working to increase the number of high schools. medical college so that students can self-register to study in the country.
In an exchange with students who had returned from war-torn Ukraine during the large-scale evacuation drills launched by the government during “Operation Ganga”, Prime Minister Modi also sympathized with the students. and their families, who expressed their anger, even to him. , after facing difficulties in Ukraine.
“I think it’s natural for them to feel anger during this crisis,” he said, adding that they have faced hardships and defied the cold.
When they are no longer agitated and begin to understand the significance of the exercise, they will also show their affection, he said, as many students expressed their gratitude to him and praised his government. he rescued them when they had lost all hope.
Prime Minister Modi said a strong India is the answer to these troubles, expressing sympathy for the students who had to go through such experience at a young age.
“If the medical education policies were right earlier, you wouldn’t have to go abroad,” he said, adding that no parent wants their child to go abroad at such a young age. so.
His government is working to correct past mistakes, he added.
Before, there were 300 to 400 medical colleges and now the number is close to 700, PM Modi said. The number of seats they offer has increased to 1,500,000 from 80,000-90,000 before, he said.
“My effort is that every district has a medical college,” he said. Perhaps, 10 years from now, there will be more doctors trained than the last 70 years.”
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