Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently addressed 18th episode of his month-to-month radio programme – Mann Ki Baat 2.. In his address, PM Modi talked about a quantity of troubles like Aatmanirbhar Bharat, farm laws, Covid-19, amongst other people. Speaking on farm laws, he stated current agriculture reforms have begun mitigating the troubles of farmers in a brief span of time. He cited an instance of a Maharashtra farmer who utilised the provisions of the new laws to get the cash promised to him by a trader. “Since ages, these demands of farmers which at one point of time or the other all political parties had promised to them, have now been fulfilled. After deep deliberations, Parliament recently passed farm reform laws. These reforms have not only freed the farmers from various shackles, but have also given them new rights and opportunities. In such a short span of time, these rights have started reducing the problems of farmers,” he stated.
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My dear countrymen, Namaskar! I want to share a fantastic news with you all at the starting of Mann ki Baat currently. Every Indian will be proud to know that a pretty old idol of Devi Annapurna is returning to India from Canada. This idol was stolen from a temple of Varanasi and smuggled out of the nation about one hundred years ago someplace about 1913. I express my gratitude to the Government of Canada and to all these for this massive heartedness who produced this propitious deed feasible. Mata Annapoorna has a pretty particular partnership with Kashi. Now the coming back of her Idol is pleasing for all of us. Just like the idol of Mata Annapurna, a lot of our invaluable heritage has suffered at the hands of International gangs. These gangs sell them at a pretty higher value in the international marketplace. Now not only are they getting subjected to heavy restrictions India has also improved her efforts for their return. Because of such efforts, India has been productive in bringing back lots of such idols and artifacts in the previous handful of years. There is a coincidence attached with the return of the idol of Mata Annapurna… World Heritage Week was celebrated only a handful of days ago. World Heritage Week gives a great chance to the lovers of culture to revisit the previous and to know about the history of these essential milestones. In spite of these instances of corona, this time, we saw persons celebrate this Heritage week in an revolutionary manner. Culture aids a lot throughout crisis, plays a key part in handling it. Even with the assistance of technologies, culture performs like an emotional recharge. Today, lots of museums and libraries in the nation are functioning to make their collection totally digital. In Delhi, our National museum has produced some commendable efforts in this respect. National museum is functioning on introducing about ten virtual galleries- is not this fascinating! Now, sitting at your property, you can tour National Museum galleries of Delhi. On the one particular hand it is essential to take cultural heritage to the maximum quantity of persons by means of the medium of technologies, the use of technologies is also essential for the conservation of this heritage. Recently I was reading about an fascinating project. There is an island named Svalbard in the north of Norway. A project, Arctic World Archive has been set up on this island. Invaluable heritage information has been stored in this archive in such a manner that no all-natural or manmade disaster can have an effect on it. Just not too long ago, we have received information and facts that the heritage of Ajanta caves is also getting digitized and preserved in this project. A complete view of the caves of Ajanta shall be on show in this. Along with the digitalized and restored painting, it shall also have essential documents and quotes connected to it. Friends, the pandemic has on the one particular hand changed our strategies of functioning on the other it has offered us with an chance to practical experience nature in a new manner. Our point of view in observing nature has also undergone a transform. We are now stepping into the winter season. We will get to see myriad hues of nature. For the previous handful of days Internet is complete of viral photos of Cherry Blossoms. You may well be pondering that when I am referring to Cherry Blossoms I am speaking about Japan’s distinct identity but it is not like that. These are not photos of Japan. These are photos of Shillong of our Meghalaya. These cherry blossoms have additional enhanced the beauty of Meghalaya.
Friends, this twelfth of November marked the commencement of the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Dr. Salim Ali ji. Dr. Salim has completed illustrious function in the field of bird watching – the avian planet. This has also attracted bird watchers of the planet towards India. I have usually been an ardent admirer of persons who are fond of bird watching. With utmost patience, for hours with each other from morn to dusk, they can do bird watching, enjoying the scenic beauty of nature they also preserve passing on the know-how gained to us. In India as well, quite a few bird watching societies are active. You as well should really connect yourselves with this topic. Amid the hectic routine of my life, not too long ago in Kevadia, I also got a memorable chance to invest time with birds. Time spent amongst birds will bond you closer to nature, it will also inspire you towards the atmosphere.
My dear countrymen, India’s culture and Shaastras, know-how has usually been a centre of attraction for the whole planet. Many persons came to India to find out & study them & stayed back for ever, whereas some of them returned to their respective nations as carriers of this culture. I got an chance to know about the function of Jonas Masetti, also recognized as Vishwanath. Jonas teaches Vedanta & Geeta to persons in Brazil. He runs an institution named Vishwavidya, situated in the hills of Petropolis, an hour’s distance from Rio De Janeiro. Jonas, following studying Mechanical Engineering worked in his stock marketplace firm. Later he was drawn towards Indian culture, specifically Vedanta. From stocks to spirituality, it has really been a extended journey for him. Jonas studied Vedanta Philosophy in India, staying at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Coimbatore for 4 years. Jonas has a further specialty- he is making use of technologies to propagate his message. He on a regular basis conducts on the net programmes. He also does a every day podcast. During the final seven years, by means of his absolutely free open courses on Vedanta, Jonas has taught more than a lakh & a half students. Jonas is not only undertaking good function – he is undertaking it by means of a language understood by a massive quantity of persons. People are a great deal keen on understanding how this could be of assistance to them throughout these instances of Corona & quarantine. Through the medium of Mann Ki Baat, I congratulate Jonas on his efforts & want him properly for his future endeavors.
Friends, similarly, one particular piece of news may well have caught your interest. Newly elected MP in New Zealand Dr. Gaurav Sharma took the Oath of workplace in one particular of the ancient languages of the planet – Sanskrit. The dissemination of Indian culture on component of an Indian fills us with pride. Through the medium of Mann Ki Baat, I extend ideal wishes to Gaurav Sharma ji. All of us want he attains newer achievements in the service of the persons of New Zealand.
My dear countrymen, tomorrow on the 30th of November, we shall celebrate the 551st Prakash Parv, birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev ji. The planet more than, the influence of Guru Nanak Dev ji is distinctly visible.
From Vancouver to Wellington, from Singapore to South Africa his messages are heard all about. It is talked about in Guru Granth Sahib –“sevak ko seva bun aayee”, that is the function of a sevak, a servant is to serve. In the previous handful of years at quite a few essential junctures we had the chance to serve as a Sevak. Guru Sahib awarded us the chance to serve. 550th Prakash Parva of Guru Nanak Dev ji, 350th Prakash Parv of Shri Guru Govind Singh ji, subsequent year we will have 400th Prakash Parv of Shri Guru Teg Bahadur ji as well. I really feel that I have been specially blessed by Guru Sahib that he has connected me pretty closely with his function.
Friends, do you know that there is a Gurudwara, Lakhpat Gurudwara Sahib, in Kutch. Shri Guru Nanak ji had stayed at Lakhpat Gurudwara Sahib throughout his Udaasi, his spiritual travels. During the 2001 earthquake this Gurudwara as well faced harm. It was the blessings of Guru Sahib that I was in a position to guarantee its restoration. Not only was the renovation completed its glory and grandeur had been restored as well. All of us had been bestowed with ample blessings of Guru Sahib. The restoration efforts of Lakhpat Gurudwara had been honored with the Award of Distinction by the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Award in 2004. The jury that gave away the award identified that throughout the restoration, the fine information of the art and architecture had been provided particular care. The jury also noted that in the restoration of the Gurudwara not only did the Sikh neighborhood participate actively it was completed below their guidance as well. I had the fantastic fortune of going to Lakhpat Gurudwara when I was not even the Chief Minister. I utilised to really feel immensely energized getting there. Everyone feels blessed on going to this Gurudwara. I really feel pretty grateful that Guru Sahib has granted me the chance to serve on a regular basis. Opening of the Kartarpur Sahib corridor in November final year was historic. I will cherish this lifelong in my heart. It is the fantastic fortune of all of us that we got the chance to serve Shri Darbaar Sahib when extra. It has now come to be less difficult for our Sikh brothers and sisters abroad to send contributions in the service of Darbaar Sahib. With this step, the Sangat, the followers all more than the planet have come closer to Darbaar Sahib.
Friends , it was Guru Nanak Dev ji who began the tradition of Langar and we saw how the Sikh neighborhood all more than the planet continued the tradition of feeding persons throughout this period of Corona , served humanity – this tradition usually keeps inspiring us. I want we all preserve functioning as a Sevak. May Guru Sahib preserve taking solutions from me and countrymen in the exact same manner. Once once again, quite a few ideal wishes on Guru Nanak Jayanti.
My dear countrymen, in the previous handful of days I had the chance to interact with students of various universities across the nation and be a component of essential events in their journey of education. Through technologies I was in a position to connect with students of IIT- Guwahati, IIT-Delhi, Deendayal Petroleum University of Gandhinagar, JNU of Delhi, Mysore University and Lucknow University. To be amongst the youth of the nation is really refreshing and energizing. University campuses in a way are like Mini India. In these campuses on the one particular hand we see the diversity of India on the other we also obtain good passion for alterations for a New India. Before Corona when I utilised to go for a face to face occasion at any institution, I would urge that poor students from nearby schools to be invited to the function. Those young children have been attending the functions as my particular guests. When a tiny kid in the grand function watches a young particular person becoming a Doctor, Engineer, Scientist, sees a person getting a medal, new dreams awaken in the kid- ‘I too can do it’, this self self-assurance arises. There is inspiration for resolve.
Friends, apart from this, I am usually interested in understanding who the alumni of the institution are, what the arrangements by the institution for typical engagement with its alumni are, how vibrant their alumni network is.
My young buddies, you are a student of an institution only till you study there, but you stay an alumni of that institution lifelong.
After leaving college or college, two issues under no circumstances finish – one particular, the influence of your education, and second, your bonding with your college or college. Whenever alumni interact with each and every other, in their memories of college or college, higher time is provided to reminiscing about time on campus and moments spent with buddies than about books and research, and, from these memories, a feeling is born to do anything for the institution.
What can bring higher happiness than to lend a hand in improvement of the spot exactly where your character was moulded? I have study specific such efforts, exactly where the former students have provided back to their old institutions in good measure. Nowadays, alumni are pretty active in this. IITians have offered their institutions quite a few facilities like Conference Centres, Management Centres& Incubation Centres set up by their efforts. All of these endeavors enhance the finding out practical experience of the present students. IIT Delhi has initiated an endowment fund, which is a brilliant concept. There is a culture of such endowments in renowned universities across the planet, which aids the students. I feel that universities of India are also capable to institutionalize this culture.
When it comes to returning anything, absolutely nothing can be deemed massive or tiny. Even the smallest assistance matters. Every work is essential. Often, alumni play a pretty essential part in technologies upgradation of their institutions, in building of buildings, in initiating awards and scholarships and in beginning applications for ability improvement. The old student associations of specific schools have began mentorship programmes. In these programmes, they guide the students of various batches and also talk about educational prospects. Alumni associations are robust in quite a few schools, specifically in boarding schools, exactly where they organize activities like sports tournaments and neighborhood service.
I would like to urge former students to preserve consolidating their bonding with the institution in which they have studied! Whether it is at the level of college, college, or university. I also urge the institutions to function on new and revolutionary strategies of alumni engagement and create inventive platforms so that alumni can be actively involved. A robust vibrant & active alumni network is necessary not only in massive Colleges and Universities but also in schools of our villages.
My dear countrymen, the 5thDecember is the death anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. The extra we study Sri Aurobindo, higher is the insight that we get. The extra my young buddies study about Sri Aurobindo, higher will they study about themselves, enriching themselves. The state of inner consciousness in which you are, exactly where you are engaged in attempting to realize the quite a few resolves, amid all this you will usually obtain a new inspiration in Sri Aurobindo you will obtain him displaying you a new path! Just as at present when we are moving forward with the campaign ‘Vocal for Local’, Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of Swadeshi shows us the path.
There is a pretty profound poemin Bangla.
‘Sui ChhutoPoy-Monto Ashe Tunga hote’.
Diya-ShalaiKathi, Tau aasepote ||
Pro-deeptiJaliteKhete, Shutee, Jethe.
KichhuteLokNoyaShadhiaan ||
That is, right here, even the sewing needle and match stick come on a foreign ship! The persons are not absolutely free even in consuming, drinking, sleeping!
He alsoused to say that Swadeshi indicates that we give priority to the issues produced by our Indian workers and artisans. It is not that Sri Aurobindo ever opposed finding out something from abroad. Wherever there is something new, we should really study from there and then assistance and encourage what can be fantastic for our nation-and that is the spirit of the Vocal for Local Mantra in the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign. Especially what Shri Aurobindo opined about adopting Swadeshi should really be study by just about every citizen currently.
Friends, likewise, Shri Aurobindo’s views on education had been pretty lucid. He did not look at education to be restricted only to bookish know-how, degree and job. Sri Aurobindo utilised to say that our national education should really concentrate on coaching of the hearts and minds of our younger generation, that is, scientific improvement of the thoughts and Indian ethos reside in the heart should really also be there, then only a young particular person can come to be a improved citizen of the nation. Whatever Shri Aurobindo stated about national education and anticipated then, the nation is now reaching it by means of the new National Education Policy.
My dear countrymen, new dimensions are getting added to agriculture and its connected activities in India. The agricultural reforms in the previous handful of days have also now opened new doors of possibilities for our farmers. The demands that have been produced by farmers for years, that just about every political celebration, at some point or the other produced the guarantee to fulfill, these demands have been met. After a lot of deliberation, the Parliament of India gave a legal kind to the agricultural reforms. These reforms have not only served to unshackle our farmers but also provided them new rights and possibilities. In just a brief span of time, these new rights have begun to ameliorate the woes of our farmers. You as well should really know how Jitendra Bhoiji, a farmer from Dhule district in Maharashtra produced use of the not too long ago promulgated farm laws. Jitendra Bhoiji had sown corn and decided to sell his generate to traders for a ideal value. The total price of the generate was fixed at around Rupees Three Lakh thirty two thousand. Jitendra Bhoi even received an advance of Rupees twenty 5 thousand. It had been decided that the outstanding quantity would be cleared in fifteen days. However, later such situations created, that he did not get the remainder of his payment. Buy the crop from the farmer, preserve the payment pending for months on finish almost certainly this was the extended standing tradition that the purchasers of corn had been following. This continued for 4 months wherein Jitendra ji was not paid his dues. In this predicament, the new farm laws that had been passed in September came to his help. Under this law, it was decided that all dues of the farmers should really be cleared inside 3 days of procurement, failing which, the farmer can lodge a complaint. Another notable aspect of this law is that the region Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) has to guarantee grievance redressal of the farmer inside one particular month. Now, with our farmer brother empowered with this law, his grievance had to be redressed consequently, he lodged a complaint and inside days his outstanding payments had been cleared. This appropriate and comprehensive know-how of the law became the strength of Jitendra ji. Whichever the field, appropriate know-how, absolutely free from misconceptions and rumors can act as a force multiplier for just about every person. Mohammad Aslam ji from Baran district in Rajasthan is functioning in a comparable style to boost awareness amongst farmers. He is also the CEO of a farmer producer organization. Yes, you heard it ideal! – the CEO of a farmer producer organization.I hope this is heart warming news for the CEOs of key organizations – that farmers from far flung places of the nation are now also becoming CEOs of farmer organizations! Friends, Mohammad Aslam Ji has produced a Whatsapp group comprising various farmers from his region. On this group every day he shares updates with the farmers on prevalent rates at neighboring Mandis in the region. His personal FPO also buys generate from farmers, therefore, this work of his also aids farmers in taking a choice.
Friends, awareness beget spiritedness. Shri Virendra Yadav ji is one particular such farmer entrepreneur, who has influenced the lives of thousands by means of his awareness. Sometime ago, Virendra Yadav ji utilised to reside in Australia. Two years ago, he came to India and now lives in Kaithal, Haryana. Just like other people, the stubble in the fields was a massive concern for him as well. Work is getting completed on a enormous scale to obtain the resolution to this problem, on the other hand, currently in Mann Ki Baat, I am specifically mentioning Virendra ji due to the fact his efforts are various and show a new way forward. To obtain a resolution to stubble, Virendra ji purchased a Straw Baler machine to make bundles of straw. For this, he also received monetary help from the Agricultural division. With this machine, he started to make bundles of stubble. After obtaining produced the bundles, he sold the stubble to agro power plants and paper mills. You will be amazed to know that in just two years, Virendra ji has traded in stubble in excess of Rupees Two and a Half Crores and has earned a profit of around Rupees Fifty Lakhs. The advantage of this also accrues to the farmers of these fields from exactly where Virendra ji sources his stubble. We have frequently heard of ‘waste to wealth’, on the other hand, this initiative is a special instance of earning cash and righteous goodwill even though acquiring a resolution to the challenge of stubble. To the youth, specifically the lakhs of students who are studying agriculture, it is my request that they go to villages in their vicinity and speak to the farmers and make them conscious about innovations in farming and the current agricultural reforms. This way, you will come to be stakeholders in key reforms underway in the nation.
My dear countrymen, in Mann Ki Baat, we refer to a wide variety of troubles and subjects. However, it has been one particular year of one particular such incident we would under no circumstances want to don’t forget fondly. It has been roughly one particular year due to the fact the planet came to know of the initially case of Corona. Since then, the whole planet has observed various ups and downs. Coming out of the lockdown now the discussion on a vaccine has commenced, on the other hand, any sort of negligence concerning Corona can be deadly even now. We have to firmly preserve fighting against Corona.
Friends, Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s Punya Tithi, death anniversary is in a handful of days from now on the 6th of December. Besides paying our homage to Baba Saheb, this day is also an occasion to reaffirm our resolve to the nation and abiding by the duties, assigned to us by the Constitution as an person. A massive component of the nation is also witnessing the onset of winter. Many places are experiencing snowfall. In this climate, we should take care of the young children and elders in the household, specifically the ailing and take precautions ourselves as well. It offers me joy to see persons assisting the needy about them assisting them with warm clothes. Winter brings quite a few difficulties for destitute animals as well and quite a few persons come forward to their help. Our young generation requires active component in such initiatives. Friends, the subsequent time when we meet in Mann Ki Baat, the year 2020 will be drawing to a close. With new hopes and faith, we will move forward. Whatever recommendations or tips you could have now, do continue to preserve sharing with me. My ideal wishes to all of you. May all of you remain healthful, remain active for the nation.
Many Many thanks.