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.
India seeking to resume road works, some plants in lockdown
India is seeking ways to resume construction of highways and arterial roads in districts least impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, and some factories as it charts out a plan to revive Asia’s third-largest economy.
Builders were constructing 31 kilometers (19.3 miles) of roads a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the lockdown starting March 25.
India plans to spend $12 billion to build 15,500 km of highways in the new financial year started April 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in her budget speech on Feb.
1. “We need to see if there’s a way to start work to ensure employment for at least a section of daily wage workers," Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister for roads and small and medium industries said in an
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