Modi tweeted: "Teachers' Day greetings! We salute all teachers, who tirelessly light the lamp of knowledge."
"Tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Teacher, scholar and statesman, he remains an inspiration for the entire nation."
In the first mass contact programme of its kind, Modi will interact live with millions of young students and teachers across the nation on Friday on the occasion of Teachers' Day.
Modi will address the students from 3 pm to 4.45 pm through satellite link and live telecast on Doordarshan and the human resource development ministry website.
He will address about 1,000 students from various Delhi schools at the Manekshaw Auditorium here, which will be broadcast live by all Doordarshan channels to over 18 lakh government and private schools in the country, as well on radio. Live streaming on the web would also be available.
Modi will also interact — through satellite link — with students at National Information Centres in Leh, Port Blair, Silchar (Assam), Imphal, Bhuj (Gujarat), Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) and Thiruvannamalai (Tamil Nadu).
He will also take questions fromsome students across the country through video-conferencing.
The practice has been in vogue in Gujarat where Modi was chief minister for over a decade till he became Prime Minister after this year's general elections.
Though human resource development Minister Smriti Irani has assured attendance of students in their schools would be "completely voluntary", the exercise has kicked up controversy with many political parties and others questioned the timing of the address to students, which comes as Modi completes 100 days in office.
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