Page 9 - Mann Ki Baat - English
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Shriman Dikar Singh Mewari,
a Ni-kshay friend of a village
in Nainital, has adopted six TB
patients. Similarly, Shriman
Gyan Singh, head of a village
panchayat of Kinnaur and a
Ni-kshay Mitra, also is engaged
in providing every necessary
help to TB patients in his block.
Our children and young friends
are also not far behind in the
campaign to make India TB-
free. Look at the wonder of Nalini
Singh, a 7-year-old daughter
from Una, Himachal Pradesh.
Daughter Nalini, is helping TB
patients through her pocket
money. You know how much kids
love piggy banks, but 13-year-
old Meenakshi from Katni
district of Madhya Pradesh and
campaign. It is due to this 11-year-old Bashwar Mukherjee
participation, that today, more from Diamond Harbor in West
than 10 lakh TB patients in the Bengal are both different kids.
country have been adopted... Both these children have also
and this is a noble deed on the handed over their piggy bank
part of close to 85 thousand Ni- money to the TB-free-India
kshay Mitras. I am happy that campaign. All these examples,
many sarpanchs of the country, apart from evoking emotions,
even the village heads, have are also very inspiring. I heartily
taken this initiative that they appreciate all these children
will spare no effort to uproot TB who are thinking big at a tender
from their villages. age.
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