Prime Minister Narendra Modi with students at Chhattisgarh's Education City.
After becoming Prime Minister, he never keeps track of the hours he works, Prime Minister Narendra Modi confided to a group of students in Chhattisgarh today.
Work was its own reward, he said. "One can never get tired while working. What tires a person is not being able to work. The more one works it is better."
PM Modi was at Education City - a 150-acre campus housing over a dozen schools and colleges in the Maoist heartland - as part of his visit to Dantewada today, where he is to inaugurate a number of development projects.
During his half-hour discussion with the students, he answered questions ranging from how many hours he works and what was the secret of his success.
"I keep coming across success and failure. I keep learning from my failures and never give up on my attempts to succeed," he told them.
"Life should not be judged through the prism of success or failure. When we do that, disappointment sets in... We need to learn from failures. Only then does success become possible," he said.
Education City, which houses around 5000 students from economically backward and tribal families, had come up to stop disruption of education in the Maoist belt. It is geared at turning out skilled workforce.
Impressing on them the importance of work, PM Modi told them one should not dream of "becoming" a doctor or engineer, but "working" as one.
PM Modi's interaction with students had started last year, with a special address to them on September 5, the Teachers' Day. On that occasion, among other things, he was asked how life had changed for him after becoming Prime Minister.