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.
Modi’s approach is to push behavioural change by scaling up the successes among various schemes Consider this scenario: You are a poor farmer left with a few bags of rice and a family to feed before sowing season.
If you feed them as you normally would, you may have no seeds left to sow. If you ask the family to go a bit hungry, you have the option of sowing the remaining grain to reap the next harvest.
Which option would you choose? Well, if you were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, you would probably choose option two. Nothing else can explain why, in the face of an overwhelming consensus among economists and political observers in favour of massive cash transfers to the poor and the adoption of an economic stimulus, Modi has chosen to