Mann Ki Baat · 29 June 2025
Episode 123 featured Bodoland's football boom, Meghalaya's eri silk weavers, women's enterprises in Bhadrachalam, Kalaburagi and Balaghat, a Pune family greening the Junnar hills and a carbon-neutral village in Maharashtra.
2 people · 4 groups · 1 place highlighted. Read the official English transcript.
Group · Bodoland Territorial Region, Assam
Football has become a source of hope in Assam's Bodoland region, where the Bodoland CEM Cup drew more than 3,700 teams and about 70,000 players, many of them girls. Players from the region such as Halicharan Narzary, Durga Boro, Apurba Narzary and Manbir Basumatari have reached the national stage.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Meghalaya
Meghalaya's eri silk, preserved for generations especially by the Khasi community, recently received a GI tag. Because the silkworms are not killed to make it, it is called ahimsa silk, and women's self-help groups are now taking it to a wider market.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Bhadrachalam, Telangana
Women in Bhadrachalam who once worked as farm labourers formed a self-help group and now bake millet biscuits sold as Bhadradri Millet Magic, from Hyderabad to London. They also made 40,000 low-cost Giri sanitary pads in three months for local schools and offices.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Kalaburagi, Karnataka
Women in Kalaburagi who formed a cooperative that makes more than 3,000 jowar rotis a day. The rotis have become a brand, with a dedicated counter in Bengaluru and orders through online food platforms, raising the women's incomes.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Katangi, Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
A woman from Katangi block who joined a self-help group, trained in mushroom farming and animal husbandry, and built on her rising income to run a Didi Canteen and a thermal therapy centre.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · Pune, Maharashtra
A Pune man who spends weekends with his family on the hills of Junnar, clearing scrub, digging trenches to hold rainwater and sowing seeds. They dug 70 trenches in two months, and he has made small ponds and planted hundreds of trees; birds and wildlife are returning.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Place · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, Maharashtra
A gram panchayat described as carbon neutral, where waste is collected from every house, dirty water is treated before it reaches the river, and a tree is planted in memory of each person who dies.
As described in Mann Ki Baat