Mann Ki Baat Live Updates: PM Narendra Modi to address nation at 11 am today amid Covid-19 surge

The Prime Minister will be addressing the 76th episode of his monthly radio programme.

Mann Ki Baat Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 76th episode of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ at 11 am today.

This comes at a time when the country is fighting a second wave of the novel coronavirus, registering over 3 lakh cases every day for the last three days. The nation is also facing an acute shortage in supply of medical oxygen, with patients allegedly dying because of lack of it in many states.

In the earlier edition of the Prime Minister’s address, he had spoken about how modernisation in the agriculture sector is the need of the hour. “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 had said.

The prime minister’s call for embracing modern practices in agriculture comes at a time when hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi’s border points at Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri since November last year demanding that the Centre repeal the three contentious farm laws.

Mann Ki Baat Live Updates: PM Narendra Modi to address the nation amid an unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases. Top updates here:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 76th episode of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ at 11 am today.

A paramedic assists Covid-19 patients with oxygen support as they wait inside an Ambulance outside a Civil Hospital in Gujarat. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindan)

In last month’s edition, modernisation in the agriculture sector and the country’s vaccination programme took centrestage during the Prime Minister’s address.

“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 said. The country has witnessed this during the white revolution and bee farming is also emerging as one such alternative, he added.

The call, however, came at a time when hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi’s border points at Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri since November last year demanding that the Centre repeal the three contentious farm laws.

PM Modi also lauded the vaccination programs in the country. “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 said.

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