Mann Ki Baat · 29 September 2024
Episode 114, marking ten years of Mann Ki Baat, featured women reviving rivers and ponds in Bundelkhand and Madhya Pradesh, village clean-ups, a chair-mender in Kozhikode, Santhali going digital, a Madurai herb garden and Bhandara's tussar silk.
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Group · Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
Women from a self-help group in drought-prone Bundelkhand who brought the dying Ghurari river back to life by building a check dam from sand-filled sacks. They have also helped build or revive hundreds of reservoirs.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Raipura, Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
After a large pond raised the water table in Raipura village, women from this self-help group took up fish farming and opened a fish shop, adding to their incomes.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Khomp, Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh
When the big pond of Khomp village began to dry up, women from this group dug out the silt and used it to plant a fruit orchard on barren land. The pond now holds water and crop yields have risen.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Jhala, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
Young people in this border village run a campaign called Dhanyavad Prakriti (Thank You, Nature), cleaning the village for two hours every day and taking the rubbish to a set place outside it.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Mahe, Puducherry
A woman who leads a team of young volunteers from Mahe and nearby areas in cleaning the town and especially its beaches.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Kozhikode, Kerala
A 74-year-old man who has repaired more than 23,000 chairs so they can be used again, including at government offices in Kozhikode. People call him a champion of reduce, reuse and recycle.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Mayurbhanj, Odisha
Unable to send messages in his mother tongue on his phone, he worked with friends on a way to type Santhali in its Ol Chiki script and built a digital platform where Santhali writing can be read and published.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Telangana
A man who vowed about four years earlier to plant a tree every day and has planted more than 1,500 saplings, keeping his promise even after an accident.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Verichiyur, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
A teacher who became interested in traditional herbal knowledge in the 1980s, after her father was bitten by a snake, and began collecting medicinal plants. Her garden in Verichiyur village now has more than 500 rare species, and visitors come to learn about them.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Bhandara, Maharashtra
More than 50 self-help groups, many of them women, are keeping alive Bhandara's old tradition of tussar silk handloom, known for its colour, design and strength.
As described in Mann Ki Baat