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PM Modi asks secretaries to engage universities and youth
The Hindu··21 Aug
On 20 August 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the third high-level meeting with Secretaries to the Government of India at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. The Prime Minister's Office said he called for greater engagement between departments, universities and young people so that new and unconventional ideas enter policymaking. He also discussed infrastructure, connectivity, security and external affairs.
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What It Means For You
- If you are a university student, the PMO statement is that departments have been told to treat campuses as a source of policy ideas, not only as exam factories.
- Anyone watching ministerial outreach can note One Day, One University is the named format under which Union ministers would visit campuses.
- If you use government data or AI tools, Modi told secretaries to keep human judgement in the loop and treat data as a national asset.
What's Happening
- This was the third such secretary-level sitting. Modi posted that the future action agenda of ministries was discussed.
- He cited COVID-19 and the West Asia crisis as examples of departments working together.
- The meeting followed weeks of student protests over examination leaks, which the PMO-linked coverage placed as background, not as a listed agenda item.
What One Day One University Is Meant To Add
- The proposed programme would send Union ministers to campuses to hear students on education, jobs and schemes, coordinated with the education and sports ministries.
- Joshi has also been building a national free online coaching platform after the examination-leak protests and a change in the education portfolio.
- A high-level meeting with secretaries is an internal coordination tool; it does not itself change university statutes or exam rules.
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