Mann Ki Baat · 28 June 2026
Episode 135 featured a Nanded family who insured their whole village as a wedding gift, the women saving Assam's hargila stork, football leagues for Nagaland's children and women, Meghalaya's guardians of living root bridges, and women in Biaora turning plastic into bricks.
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Group · Bahadurpura, Nanded, Maharashtra
A family in Bahadurpura village who, to mark a wedding at home, bought accident insurance worth one lakh rupees each for about 3,500 villagers, having seen how families struggle financially after an accident.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Assam
The hargila, or greater adjutant stork, was long seen as a bad omen in parts of Assam and its nesting trees were cut down. Biologist Purnima Devi Barman explained the bird's value to village women, and thousands of them now protect it as the "Hargila Army".
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Group · Nagaland
Two football initiatives in Nagaland: the Baby League, running for three years, for boys and girls aged five to twelve, and a women's futsal league, a fast five-a-side indoor game, giving young women a stage for their talent.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Person · East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya
A Khasi farmer who has spent more than 50 years caring for Meghalaya's living root bridges, grown over decades from the roots of rubber fig trees. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2026.
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Group · Meghalaya
Local communities who counted Meghalaya's living root bridges themselves and now look after more than 120 of them, with teams inspecting their condition every year and some people raising nurseries to strengthen the areas around them.
As described in Mann Ki Baat
Group · Biaora, Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Women in Biaora who began collecting plastic waste and empty bottles from around their town themselves and turning them into eco-bricks. Hundreds of kilograms of plastic have been recycled into bricks used to brighten public spaces.
As described in Mann Ki Baat