2. ABOUT HIM……
Narendra Damodardas Modi.
Born :17 September 1950 (age 64).
Vadnagar, Bombay State, (now Gujarat) India.
Nationality: Indian.
Political party: Bharatiya Janata Party.
Residence: 7, Race Course Road, New Delhi.
Religion: Hinduism.
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3. CONTRIBUTION TO INDIA
His family belonged to the Ghanchi (oil-presser) community,
which is categorised among the other backward classes by the
Indian government. He was the third of six children born to
Damodardas Mulchand and Heeraben Modi.
As a child, he helped his father Damodardas sell tea at the
Vadnagar railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother
near a bus terminus.
He completed his schooling in Vadnagar in 1967, where a
teacher described him as being an average student, but a keen
debater with an interest in theatre.
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On 26 June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a
unilateral state of emergency throughout the country, which lasted
until 1977. During this period, many of her political opponents
were jailed, and organizations opposing her, including the RSS,
were banned. At the time, Modi was the pracharak in-charge of
the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of
the RSS. He was forced to go underground in Gujarat, and
frequently traveled in disguise to avoid being arrested. He became
involved in printing booklets against the central government and
distributing them to Delhi, as well as organising agitations. During
this period, he also wrote a book in Gujarati titled Sangharsh ma
Gujarat (The struggles of Gujarat) which described events during
the emergency.
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The RSS assigned Modi to the BJP in 1985.In 1988, Modi was
elected an organising secretary of BJP's Gujarat unit, marking his
formal entry into electoral politics.
On 3 October 2001, Modi was named as the replacement of Patel
as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, with the responsibility of
preparing the BJP for elections in December 2002.As Chief
Minister, Modi's ideas of governance revolved around
privatization and small government, which stood at odds with
what political commentator Aditi Phadnis has described as the
anti-privatization, anti-globalization position of the RSS.
Successive BJP governments under Patel and Modi supported
NGOs and communities in the creation of infrastructure projects
for conservation of groundwater. like, Sardar sarovar yojna.
6. Modi at the inauguration of
a hospital in Kheda district,
Gujarat.
The Narendra Modi government
also succeeded in bringing
electricity to every village in
Gujarat, although Dipankar
Banerjee points out that all but 170
of them had been electrified under
the previous Congress
administration. Modi also greatly
changed the system of power
distribution in the state, with a
significant impact on farmers. The
state greatly expanded the
Jyotigram Yojana scheme, in which
the agricultural electricity supply
was rewired to separate it from
other rural power supplies.
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7. economists Arvind Panagariya and Jagdish Bhagwati state that
Gujarat's social indicator improved from a much lower baseline
than other Indian states. They state that Gujarat's performance in
raising literacy rates has been superior to other states in India,
and the "rapid" improvement of health indicators in Gujarat as
evidence that "its progress has not been poor by any means."
Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime
Minister on 26 May 2014 at the
Rastrapati Bhavan. He is India's first
prime minister born after the country's
independence. In a first of its kind, Modi
invited all SAARC leaders to attend his
swearing-in ceremony.
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8. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Gujarat Ratna by Shri Poona Gujarati Bandhu Samaj at Ganesh
Kala Krida Manch on celebration of centenary year.
e-Ratna award by the Computer Society of India.
Best Chief Minister – In a nationwide survey conducted in 2007
by India Today magazine, Narendra Modi was declared the Best
Chief Minister in the country.
Asian Winner of the fDi Personality of the Year award for 2009
by FDi magazine .In March 2012, Modi appeared on the cover of
the Asian edition of Time , one of India's few politicians to have
done so.
Modi was featured in Time's 2014 Time 100 list of the most
influential people in the world.
Modi has become the most followed Asian leader on Twitter.