As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat’ is completing its 100th episode, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is all set to organise live screening of the programme at all the Raj Bhavans of the country on 30th April, 2023. In line with this initiative, the Raj Bhavan at Guwahati is also gearing up for the live screening of the 100th episode of “Mann ki Baat”. Media Units in Guwahati under the Ministry of Information of Broadcasting in collaboration with the Raj Bhavan are organising the special screening of the popular radio programme.

The Governor of Assam, Shri Gulab Chand Kataria will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest.  Eminent people in various fields and public representatives have been invited for the programme. Apart from this, people from the state whose work has been appreciated in the previous Mann Ki Baat programme, have also been invited to witness the special screening of the 100th episode of “Mann Ki Baat”.

Background 
The first episode of Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat was broadcast on 3rd October, 2014 (Friday) on the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashami through All India Radio (AIR). Since April 2015, Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio programme is broadcast on the last Sunday of every month and the latest broadcast of 99th episode was on 26th March, 2023. Besides all networks of AIR it is visualized by Doordarshan and telecast on its entire network. It is also broadcast in sign language on Doordarshan. The 100th episode of Mann Ki Baat is scheduled on 30th April, 2023.
The first episode of Mann Ki Baat was of a duration of 14 minutes, which increased to 19 minutes in second episode and 26 minutes in third episode. Since 4th episode, the duration of each episode has remained 30 minutes.
Initially, the broadcast was in Hindi language only, and subsequently, the English version started from 31st January, 2016 and Sanskrit version from 28th May, 2017. Currently, Mann Ki Baat is broadcast in 23 languages including 22 Indian languages and English, 29 dialects (25 from North East and 4 from Chhattisgarh) and in 11 foreign languages. The Indian languages include Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Odia, Konkani, Nepali, Kashmiri, Dogri, Manipuri, Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Bodo, Santhali, Urdu and Sindhi. The dialects are Chhattisgarhi, Gondi, Halbi, Sargujia, Pahari, Sheena, Gojri, Balti, Ladakhi, Karbi, Khasi, Jaintia, Garo, Nagamese, Hmar, Paite, Thadou, Kabui, Mao, Tangkhul, Nyishi, Adi, Monpa, Ao, Angami, Kokborok, Mizo, Lepcha and Sikkimese (Bhutia). French, Chinese, Indonesian, Tibetan, Burmese, Baluchi, Arabic, Pashtu, Persian, Dari and Swahili are the foreign languages in which the broadcast is done.
Prime Minister has mentioned over 700 Individuals and around 300 organizations so far in the Mann Ki Baat Program. These include 37 individuals and 10 Organizations from foreign countries as well.

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