15th Prime Minister of India (Sworn in on
May 26, 2014)
Date-wise Events / Works
Works:
In 2001, he co-authored Setubandh, a
biography of the RSS leader Lakshmanrao Inamdar.
In 2007, a book comprising a collection of Modi's poems
titled Aankh Aa Dhanya Chhe (Our Eyes Are
So Blessed) was published.
He also authored a book Karmayog which
was a 101-page booklet.
His Gujarati book titled Jyotipunj was
published in 2008 and contains biographical profiles of
various RSS leaders by whom he was inspired.
He has authored eight other books, mostly comprising
short stories for children.
Events:
May 26, 2014 - He was sworn in as
the 15th Prime Minister of India. Modi invited leaders of the
SAARC countries to
his swearing-in as prime minister to strengthen
ties among its member states.
October 2014 - He launched the
Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan ("Clean India") campaign, a national
cleanliness drive.
August 03, 2014 - He reached Nepal
on this day on 2 days State visit to help speed up
negotiations on a power trade pact.
Soon after arriving here,
Modi handed over Jeet Bahadur, his Godson, to his mother
Khagisara and brother Dasharath Sarumagar and younger
sister. (Jeet Bahadur is a Nepalese youth, who had
got lost in India and Narendra Modi, found him in
Ahmedabad. Since then Modi was acting guardian to him,
helping him in his well being and development).
August 30, 2014 - He began a
five-day trip to Japan.
September 17, 2014 - Chinese
President Xi Jinping arrived in India.
September, 2014 (Last week) - He had a successful visit to the United States, which led to an improvement in
relations between India and the US.
September 23, 2014: He
arrived in Dublin, Ireland on this day; after a
gap of around 60 years, any Prime Minister of India
arrived in Ireland.
September 27, 2014 - He addressed
to the United Nations General Assembly; Modi asked for the
adoption of 21 June as International Yoga Day,
and a resolution doing so was approved by the 193-member
body.
June 01, 2015 - He launched the "Housing for All
By 2022" project, which intends to eliminate slums
in India by building about 20 million affordable
homes for India's urban poor.
June 25, 2015 - He launched a flagship scheme for developing 100 smart
cities.
July 01, 2015 - He launched Digital India Week
in Delhi.
July 15, 2015:
Skill India is a campaign launched by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on this day with an aim to train
over 40 crore (400 million) people in India in different
skills by 2022. It includes various initiatives of the
government like "National Skill Development Mission",
"National Policy for Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship, 2015", "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana (PMKVY)" and the "Skill Loan scheme".
August 16, 2015 - He arrived in
Abu
Dhabi on this day to begin the first UAE visit by an Indian
Prime Minister in 34 years. The all-out efforts were made
to ensure that this visitleaves an indelible impact on the lakhs of Indians
living in this “mini-India”.
September 2015 - India was the world's
top foreign direct investment destination,
overtaking China and the United States.
September 2015 - Modi visited
silicon valley
in USA to meet the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar
Pichai and Satya Nadella promoting the Digital India
program.
November 18, 2015: A
personalised postage stamp featuring Prime Minister
Narendra was issued by Turkey in remembrance of the just
concluded G20 Leaders Summit here. The stamp of 2.80
Turkish lira bears a picture of Modi and the Indian
national flag. It has 'Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of
Republic of India' written at the bottom.
December 25, 2015: He made a surprise stopover in
Lahore to meet Nawaz Sharif on his birthday, his first visit to
Pakistan. Modi and Nawaz held a brief meeting at the
latter's Raiwind Palace. This was the first time an Indian
premier visited Pakistan in more than a decade. Modi also
attended wedding ceremony of Sharif's grand daughter.
April 02, 2016: Prime
Minister of India Visit to Saudi Arabia:
He met L&T workers at Riyadh.
He said that India has potential and
manpower that the world wants today.
He said that government's e-migrate
programme is to regularise migration and resource
centre to benefit workers.
PM Modi presented King Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud a gold-plated replica of the
Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala. Cheraman Juma Masjid
is symbol of active trade relations between India
and Saudi Arabia since ancient times.
He exhorted Saudi industries to invest in
India.
Saudi Arabia conferred its highest
civilian honour on PM Modi during his visit of Saudi
Arabia.
April 03, 2016: On this
day, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gifted gold-plated
replica of Cheraman Juma Masjid to Saudi King.
Cheraman Perumal was the Chera King and a
contemporary of the Holy Prophet. Cheraman Perumal
went to Arabia and embraced Islam after meeting the
Holy Prophet at Mecca. The Cheraman mosque has an
ancient oil lamp that is always kept burning and
believed to be over a thousand years old. People
from all religions bring oil for the lamp as an
offering.
April 05, 2016: Stand up India
- This day, he launched the Stand Up
India Initiative at Noida.
The launching ceremony coincided with the birth
anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy
Prime Minister of India.
Hihlights of PM's speech:
'Stand up India' aims to empower every
Indian and enable them to stand on their own
feet.
Job Seeker has to become a Job Creator.
This scheme is going to transform the lives
of people from Dalit and Tribal communities.
E-rickshaws will be given to those who do
not own rickshaws; the beneficiaries of this
will be the poor.
PM Modi appealed e-rickshaw beneficiaries to
educate their children particularly the
daughters.
June 04, 2016: He and Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani today jointly inaugurated a
landmark dam, a Rs 1,700 crore Afghan-India
Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, on
river Chist-e-Sharif in western Herat neighbouring Iran,
will irrigate 75,000 hectares of land and generate 42 MW of
power. On this day, Modi was also honoured with Amir Amanullah Khan Award
- Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour. He was the first Indian, and amongst
only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.
June 08, 2016 - He addressed
the joint session of the US Congress.
August 20, 2016 - A suit once worn
by him has entered the Guinness Book of World Records.
In Feb 2016 a man from Surat bought the suit at an
auction for over Rs 4.3 crore, making it the most
expensive suit ever auctioned. Laljibhai Tulsibai Patel
shelled out exactly Rs 4,31,31,311 for the suit that
Modi wore on the occassion on US President Barack
Obama's second state visit to India. A diamond baron and
a private airline owner, Patel took home the suit at an
auction whose proceeds went to the Namaami Gange Trust
fund, an initiative of the Modi cabinet. The final
auction price was an extraordinary figure, given that it
reportedly cost only Rs 10 lakh to make, and was given a
base auction price of Rs 11 lakh.
October 30, 2016: On
this day, he celebrated Diwali with soldiers in a remote
and strategic area in Himachal Pradesh, adjoining the
Chinese border. He had celebrated his first Diwali after
coming in power in 2014 with soldiers posted in Siachen.
In 2015 at the Diwali occasion, he was at the
India-Pakistan border in Punjab.
November 08, 2016: In
an address to the nation on this day evening, he
announced one of the boldest and the most drastic
measures to demonetise the 500 and 1000 Rupee Notes with
effect from 12 O'Clock midnight the same day in order to
curb the black money circulating in the country.
November 10, 2016:
He
left for Japan today on a three day visit to attend the
annual Summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and have an audience with the Emperor of
Japan in Tokyo on November 11, 2016.
While on way to Tokyo, he made a brief stopover
at Bangkok, Thailand, and departed for Tokyo after
paying his final respects to late Thai King
Adulyadej Bhumibol in Dulsit Maha Prasat Hall in
Bangkok.
November 25, 2016:
He laid the foundation stone of All India
Institute of Medical sciences at Bhatinda in Punjab.
He said that fields of farmers must have
adequate water that belongs to India and assured
farmers their right over the water that flows
through Indus adding that he will strive to have
that water back.
He said that black money and corruption have
affected the middle class and deprived poor of their
rights.
December 31, 2016:
He announced two subsidy schemes under Prime
Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY).
Homebuyers earning less than Rs 6 lakh per
annum will get a subsidy of 6.5 % on a principal
component of Rs 6 lakh, regardless of their total
loan amount.
In the next bracket, people earning up to
Rs 12 lakh per annum will get interest subsidy of 4
% on a principal component of Rs 9 lakh.
The income category of Rs 18 lakh per annum will
get a subsidy of 3 % on a principal component of Rs
12 lakh.
July 03, 2017:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath announced that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will adopt Kakrahia, a village in Varanasi known
for its wrestlers and wrestling arenas. He said Modi had
chosen to adopt Kakrahia under the Sansad Adarsh Gram
Yojana. In the past two years, Modi has adopted Jayapur
and Nagepur in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi.
Sep 14, 2017: On this day, he and
the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation
stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project
between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Sep 14, 2017 On this day, he and
the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation
stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project
between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Aug 15, 2018: In his
independence day speech from the rampart of the Red
Fort, he summarised the mission of his government in the
following words:
House for all
Power for all
Cooking for all
Water for all
Sanitation for all
Skill for all
Health for all
Security/Insurance for all
Connectivity for all
And for achieving this mission, he said he
was:
Besabra (Restless)
Bechain (Worried)
Vyaakul (Upset)
Vyagra (Anxious)
Adheer (Impatient)
Aatur (Eager and wishful)
Other Events &
Developments
The 15th and current Prime Minister of India. He is
currently the Member of Parliament (MP) from
Varanasi.
First Prime Minister of India to be born after
Indian Independence.
Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also
served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat
state from 2001 to 2014.
Modi was a key strategist for the BJP
in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election
campaigns.
He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001 and
served longer in that position than anyone
else to date.
He led the BJP in the 2014 general elections,
which resulted in an outright majority for
the BJP in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian
parliament) – the last time that any party had secured an
outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984.
Awards and Accolades
Best Chief Minister in a 2007
nationwide survey by India Today.
In March 2012 he appeared on the cover of the
Asian edition of Time, one of the few Indian
politicians to have done so.
The 2014 Time list of the 100 world's most
influential people.
Forbes Magazine ranked him the
15th-most-powerful person in the world in 2014 and
the 9th-most-powerful person in the world
in 2015.
In 2015, Modi was one of Time's "30 most
influential people on the internet" as the
second-most-followed politician on Twitter and Facebook.
In 2015, Modi was ranked fifth on
Fortune magazine's second annual list of 'World's
Greatest Leaders'.
He received an overall approval rating of 87% at the end
of his first year in office, with 68% of people rating him
"very favorably" and 93% approving of his government.
In 2015, he was ranked 8th in the TIME
magazine’s Person of the Year.
In 2016, his statue featured in the Madame
Tussauds wax museum at London alongside other world
leaders such as Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela
Merkel.
Member Special Class of the Order of Abdulaziz
al Saud, April 2016. ( Saudi Arabia ).
Amir Amanullah Khan Award -
Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour - conferred on
June 04, 2016. He was the first Indian, and amongst
only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.
Other
He and his brother used to sell tea on
the streets to support the family.
In his early teens, he joined Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
During the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, the then
Prime Minister of India, he went underground and wrote a
book, Sangharsh ma Gujarat (Gujarat in
Emergency), which chronicles his experiences as a political
fugitive.
In 1987, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which stood for Hindu nationalism.
In 1995, he was elected BJP national secretary.
In February 2002, while Modi served as chief minister of
Gujarat, Gujarat riots started after burning of
train at Godhra by certain miscreants. Though he
was heavily criticised and accused by the Congress party for
massive killings, the Indian Supreme Court concluded there
was no evidence about Modi being at fault.
He was reelected chief minister of Gujarat
in 2007 and 2012.
He is credited with bringing prosperity and
development to Gujarat and is seen as a
corrupt-free and efficient administrator.
