Discover the Akashvani guys connected to PM Modi’s Mann ki Baat on World Radio Day

It’s World Radio Day, and Akashvani’s Delhi station is exploding with passion. With the 110th edition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popular monthly radio speech Mann ki Baat scheduled to air on February 26, preparations are well underway.

Two announcers who have been with the show from the beginning and over the years are the driving forces behind its glitter, and they are widely acknowledged for improving All India Radio’s listenership statistics. In his role as program director of Akashvani Delhi Station, MS Rawat oversaw the show’s production, recording, and design. Since 1987, Rawat has worked for All India Radio.

The second, Jainendra Singh began working for AIR in 1988 and retired in 2022. He is still the host of a special program named “Post Box No 111,” which is meant to be a continuation of Mann ki Baat. It interacts with the populace and the projects that the PM brought up in his speech. “In my thirty-six years of broadcasting, Post Box No. 111 is the program I love the most. In his program, PM Modi discusses cultural heritage, national heroes, and success stories. In my follow-up shows, I have the opportunity to go further into those topics,” Jainendra Singh said to The Tribune today. Before moving to Delhi, Singh worked twice at the Chandigarh station after starting his career at the AIR Jalandhar station.

Every other Sunday, AIR FM Rainbow Delhi broadcasts Post Box No 111, with the exception of the Sunday when PM’s Mann ki Baat broadcast takes place. It takes its name from the post box number that the Department of Posts assigned to Mann ki Baat in Akashvani.

MS, originally from Uttarakhand During the ten years since the show’s October 3, 2014 premiere on All India Radio, Rawat, along with partner presenter Singh, has been the sole constant. Every month, Rawat is in charge of the group that records Mann ki Baat at the PM’s house.

Mann ki Baat is accessible in eleven foreign languages, including French, Chinese, Indonesian, Tibetan, Burmese, Baluchi, Arabic, Pashtu, Persian, Dari, and Swahili, as well as in 29 local dialects (four Chhattisgarhi and 25 Northeastern).

Nine years and still going

Since it debuted on October 3, 2014, Mann ki Baat, one of the longest-running programs on Akashvani, has maintained three features.