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Nation building should become national movement: Modi

By The Assam Tribune

New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that nation building should become a national movement and every individual should be associated with it.

Addressing students here on Teachers' Day, Modi said if every individual associates himself with the task of nation building, "we can go very far".

He said people who had achieved something in life and taken to a profession such as doctors and engineers should teach students in a school for one period in a week.

"There is need to make nation building into national movement. There is need to associate everyone...The emphasis should be on how should be the national character," he said.

Modi also said he did not feel that adverse situations can come in the way of ambition of a determined individual.

I am not a headmaster, but taskmaster:The Prime Minister said that he works hard and is a "taskmaster".

Responding to a student on Teachers' Day, Modi said: "Yes, I am a taskmaster and it is not that I myself do not work and take work from others." He was answering the question: "People say you are like a headmaster but you appear to us as friendly. What kind of person are you?"

Modi added that he works hard and expects the same from others.

Modi said that during his August 15 address, he said that he was willing to work for 12 hours if his officers were willing to work for 11 hours.

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