Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
₹1 lakh crore fund for agri infrastructure
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today rolled out the third instalment of the ₹20 lakh crore economic stimulus announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, offering funds to improve farm infrastructure and logistics in the agriculture sector.
The package would focus on infrastructure and building capacities in the agriculture and allied activities, Sitharaman said.
The Central government announced ₹1 lakh crore for funding agriculture infrastructure projects at farm-gate and aggregation points.
The fund will be aimed at primary agricultural cooperative societies, farmers producers organisations, agriculture entrepreneurs and startups.
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