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.
Even after workers return, it will be a mammoth task to educate them about hygiene practices NEW DELHI : Indian companies, which are grappling with the disruption in manufacturing caused by the nationwide lockdown, will have to contend with another big challenge for weeks and months, the delivery of products including food and medicines, industry officials said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has indicated that the lockdown will be eased gradually from mid-April, but the domestic industry is staring at a huge shortage of truck drivers and loaders, with many workers having returned to their hometowns after the lockdown was announced. “We think that about 40% of drivers are not available for trucks in the industry at present.