Mann Ki Baat Live Updates: PM Narendra Modi to deal with nation at 11 am at present amid Covid-19 surge

A paramedic assists Covid-19 sufferers with oxygen assist as they wait inside an Ambulance outdoors a Civil Hospital in Gujarat. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindan)
In final month’s version, modernisation within the agriculture sector and the nation’s vaccination programme took centrestage throughout the Prime Minister’s handle.
“In order to create new employment opportunities in the agriculture sector, to increase farmers’ income, it is equally important to adopt new alternatives, innovations along with traditional agricultural practices,” he stated. The nation has witnessed this throughout the white revolution and bee farming can be rising as one such different, he added.
The name, nonetheless, got here at a time when lots of of farmers have been tenting at Delhi’s border factors at Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri since November final 12 months demanding that the Centre repeal the three contentious farm legal guidelines.
PM Modi additionally lauded the vaccination applications within the nation. “In March last year, all of us were worried about vaccination against coronavirus. But today, India is running the world’s biggest vaccination drive.” “In UP’s Jaunpur, a 109-yr-old woman got herself vaccinated. Similarly, a 107-yr-old man in Delhi got himself vaccinated. We have to make people committed towards the mantra of ‘Dawai bhi, Kadai bhi‘,” the prime minister stated.