BJP spokesperson and former Mawsynram MLA HM Shangpliang on Monday informed that the people of Syntein village have to a great extent benefited due to the Mann ki Baat programme.
Speaking to media persons, Shangpliang said that the Mann Ki Baat is a connection between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of the country.
Stating that the PM encourages entrepreneurs, the former MLA said, “We have in our state in the village Syntein where women folks make baskets, handicrafts out of bamboo and cane. This was not known to the world. The PM in his 99th episode (of Mann Ki Baat) had a very serious interaction with the people of Syntein village. We had organized the live telecast and the people of the Syntein village of Mawsynram were so delighted and so happy to see their own PM face to face on the screen.”
“After the Mann ki Baat with the PM, I must tell you that there was so much response from the outside world into the Syntein village. They wanted to buy their products. Now the people of Syntein village are going online and selling their handicrafts all over the country and they are getting orders from all five star hotels for those fruit or bread baskets to be kept in their respective hotels,” he said.
He said, “I must say that the Mann Ki Baat has become like a medium of exposure of the rural India to the outside world. I thanked the PM for initiating this programme of Mann Ki Baat of highlighting the country to the outside world.”
Lauding the success of the 100th episode of the Mann Ki Baat, Shangplaing said this was witnessed by the whole country as well as in many parts of the world.