PM Modi Interacts with Children Recovering from Heart Surgery in Nava Raipur

Prime Minister – We have to talk about the heart, who will do it?

Raipur, Nov 2025 : Child beneficiary – I am a hockey champion, I have won 5 medals in hockey. When a check-up was done at my school, I came to know that there were holes in my heart. Then I came here, and my operation took place, and now I am able to play hockey again.

Prime Minister – Son, when was your operation done?

Child beneficiary – Just 6 months ago.

Prime Minister – And did you play earlier?

Child beneficiary – Yes.

Prime Minister – Do you still play?

Child beneficiary – Yes.

Prime Minister – What do you want to do ahead?

Child beneficiary – I want to become a doctor.

Prime Minister – You will become a doctor. What will you do after becoming a doctor?

Child beneficiary – I will treat all children.

Prime Minister – Only children?

Child beneficiary – Everyone.

Prime Minister – When you become a doctor, we will become old. Will you do something for us or not?

Child beneficiary – I will.

Prime Minister – Sure?

Child beneficiary – Yes, sure.

Prime Minister – Alright.

Child beneficiary – I had never even thought that I would ever be able to meet him. Today for the first time I met him, I felt very good.

Child beneficiary – My operation happened one year ago. When I grow up, I want to become a doctor and treat everyone.

Prime Minister – Okay, when did you feel like crying?

Child beneficiary – I did not cry.

Prime Minister – But the doctor was telling that you used to cry a lot.

Child beneficiary – When did the doctor tell? He did not tell.

Prime Minister – No?

Child beneficiary – I want to recite a speech to you.

Prime Minister – Yes, go ahead, go ahead.

Child beneficiary – “Go beyond the destination and look for a destination. If you find a river, look for the ocean. Every piece of glass breaks from the blow of a stone; look for that glass which can even break the stone. What happened from your prostrations, centuries passed. What happened from your prostrations, centuries passed. Do that prostration which changes your life; do that prostration which changes your life.”

Prime Minister – Wah, wah, wah.

Child beneficiary – My operation happened in 2014, I was 14 months old then. Now I am completely healthy and I am very (good) in cricket.

Prime Minister – Okay, do you get regular check-ups done? Because now it has been 11 years since your operation?

Child beneficiary – Yes sir.

Prime Minister – So you do regular check-ups?

Child beneficiary – Yes sir.

Prime Minister – You have no problem now?

Child beneficiary – No sir.

Prime Minister – You play?

Child beneficiary – Yes sir.

Prime Minister – You play cricket?

Child beneficiary – Yes sir.

Child beneficiary – I want to meet you, can I come for 2 minutes?

Prime Minister – You want to come close? Come.

Prime Minister – How did you feel when you had to come to the hospital—taking medicines, getting injections, how did it feel?

Child beneficiary – Sir I was not even scared of injections, that is why my operation went well, I did not feel scared.

Prime Minister – Good. What do your teachers say?

Child beneficiary – My teachers say, you are good in studies but you get stuck a little sometimes.

Prime Minister – Okay, fine. But you are speaking the truth. Speaking the truth will benefit you a lot.

Child beneficiary – I study in class seven, my operation…

Prime Minister – You study in seventh class, daughter?

Child beneficiary – Yes sir!

Prime Minister – So you don’t eat?

Child beneficiary – Sir, I eat.

Prime Minister – You keep eating the teacher’s head, okay tell me.

Child beneficiary – My operation was done in 2023 and when I grow up, I want to become a teacher, because by becoming a teacher I want to teach poor children for free to help them progress, and with education our country moves forward.

Prime Minister – Okay, do you all know whose centenary year has begun this month? Sathya Sai Baba’s hundred years. Many years ago, in Puttaparthi, there was a huge shortage of water. There was no water for fields, even drinking water was scarce. At that time, he worked so much for water that he provided drinking water to about 400 villages. Even a government sometimes has to think a lot to do such big work. And the message for us is that we must save water. Similarly, we must plant trees. You know, I run a campaign—‘One tree in mother’s name’. Everyone loves their mother, right? So we must plant a tree in our mother’s name. That way we repay the debt of Mother Earth and of our own mother.

Child beneficiary – My name is Abhik, I am from West Bengal. I want to join the Army when I grow up and I want to serve the country.

Prime Minister – You will serve the country?

Child beneficiary – Yes.

Prime Minister – Sure?

Child beneficiary – Yes.

Prime Minister – Why will you?

Child beneficiary – Because the soldiers of the country protect us, I also want to protect.

Prime Minister – Wah, wah, wah.

Child beneficiary – I want to shake hands.

Child beneficiary – It was my dream to meet you.

Prime Minister – Okay, when did the dream come—today or earlier?

Child beneficiary – Much earlier.

Prime Minister – Did you know me?

Child beneficiary – I saw you on the news.

Child beneficiary – Prime Minister, you read and watch news? Good. I felt very good speaking to all of you. Now remember, for doing any good work, our body is the means. So we must keep our body healthy—do some yoga, sleep on time. You must take care of this. Will you? Surely will? Alright, my best wishes to you all.