<span style="color: #222222;">Mann Ki Baat programme has been a great initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to share his views with the people of the country.&nbsp;<br />” <br />” Our Kargil correspondent reports that the programme has a special impact in Kargil by helping to revive the dying regional language of Purigi that was traditionally spoken in Kargil-Ladakh.<br />” <br />” All India Radio, Kargil is a Purigi language station. Most programmes that are recorded and broadcast from AIR Kargil are in Purigi, which is a dialect of Tibetan that is spoken in western Ladakh.<br />” <br />” Purigi was on the verge of extinction in Kargil some decades back as most people had started using Urdu for everyday conversations. This changed in 1997 when All India Radio Kargil was established.&nbsp;<br />” <br />” The efforts to revive Purigi got further impetus in 2008 when AIR Kargil started broadcasting two five-minute bulletins in Purigi. These bulletins became very popular and they are still broadcast from AIR Kargil.<br />” <br />” The efforts to strengthen the revival of Purigi got further encouragement with the broadcast of Prime Minister Modi’s Maan-ki-Baat programee. Secretary of Purigi Literary Society, Mohammad Issa Sabiri explained that after the broadcast of Mann-ki-Baat programme, AIR Kargil broadcasts a regional version of each episode.&nbsp;<br />” <br />” Regional News Unit at AIR Kargil engages its top artistes and scholars to make the regional version of Maan-ki-Baat and the effort has paid rich dividends.&nbsp;<br />” <br />”<br />”The popularity of the regional version of the broadcast can be gauged from the response it generates from listeners across the district.</span>