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.
FM Nirmala Sitharaman unveils scheme to take local produce to global markets
NEW DELHI : Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday unveiled a ₹10,000-crore scheme to support local micro food enterprises to go global. “To implement the Prime Minister’s vision of ‘vocal for local’ with global outreach, a scheme will be launched to help 200,000 micro food enterprises," she said.
The move is aimed at exporting indigenous food items, such as fox nuts from Bihar, mango varieties of UP, saffron of Kashmir, and tapioca from Tamil Nadu to global markets.
Sitharaman said the scheme was in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for taking local products to the global markets.
The scheme will benefit 200,000 micro food enterprises to improve the quality of local products and build international brands. “This fund
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