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.
₹20 lakh crore stimulus: 5,000 crore credit facility for street vendors
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a ₹5,000 crore special credit facility for street vendors. Sitharaman said the scheme will be launched within a month and will provide initial credit facility of ₹10,000 to 50 lakh street vendors. “Digital payments will be incentivized through monetary rewards and enhanced working capital would be made available for good repayment behavior," she said.
Detailing allocations under the ₹20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the finance minister said the today’s announcements will be targeted towards migrant workers, street vendors, small traders, self-employed people, small farmers The government on Wednesday, as the first tranche of the massive
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