PM’s Pariksha Pe Charcha enters Guinness World Record for most registrations in a month

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pariksha Pe Charcha initiative has entered the Guinness World Record for “most people registered on a citizen engagement platform in one month”, the Ministry of Education (MoE) introduced on Monday.

According to officers, 3.53 crore legitimate registrations had been acquired in the course of the eighth version of the programme.

Prime Minister Modi straight interacts with college students, academics, and oldsters as a part of the Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) initiative, which goals to rework the examination season “into a festival of positivity, preparation, and purposeful learning”, making exams a time for encouragement slightly than stress.

“Pariksha Pe Charcha has been redefined as a national approach to examinations by turning stress into a festival of learning. The eighth edition of PPC recorded a total of over 21 crore viewership across all media platforms in 2025,” Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated at an occasion the place the Guinness World Record certificates was formally offered.

“The overwhelming participation in PPC 2025 is seen as a reflection of the country’s collective commitment to holistic and inclusive education and alignment with the vision of a Viksit Bharat,” he stated.

While addressing the event, Ashwini Vaishnaw known as Pariksha Pe Charcha a distinctive initiative that brings collectively college students, dad and mom, and academics to advertise well-being and stress-free studying.

PPC is an annual occasion in which Modi interacts with college students showing for board examinations. During the occasion, he additionally solutions college students’ queries associated to examination stress and different points. The first version of the prime minister’s interactive programme with faculty and faculty college students was held on the Talkatora Stadium in February 2018.

Its seventh version was held in a city corridor format on the Bharat Mandapam in Pragati Maidan, participating members from throughout the nation and abroad.

The eighth version of the prime minister’s annual PPC was held in a completely different format, with famend personalities like actor Deepika Padukone, six-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom and non secular chief Sadhguru becoming a member of the occasion.