Modi greets nation on Teachers’ Day

New Delhi, 04/09/2015: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a Interaction Session with School Children on the Eve of Children's Day in New Delhi on Friday. Photo : R. V. Moorthy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the nation on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.

The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India who was also an academician and a philosopher.

He tweeted:

Greetings & salutations to the teaching community on Teachers' Day. My tributes to the great scholar & teacher Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi)

>September 5, 2015

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