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.
₹3,1OO cr to boost fight against covid-19
The PM CARES Fund that is aimed at combating, containing and providing relief efforts against pandemics on Wednesday announced an allocation of ₹3,100 crore for the fight against covid-19.
Out of the total sum, around ₹2,000 crore will be used for buying 50,000 Made-in-India ventilators, ₹1,000 crore for relief measures for migrant labourers and ₹100 crore to support vaccine development, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
PM CARES, which stands for the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations, is a trust. In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to indigenous manufacturing, the 50,000 ventilators will be made in India. “These ventilators will be provided to government-run covid hospitals in all states
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