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.
The government has eased clamps on the movement of hygiene and cleansing products, beyond just essential commodities. A rulebook for factories could let production resume too It has been decades since India experienced a shortage economy, but that is what we now seem to have.
The scramble for household items seen after Prime Minister Narendra Modi abruptly ordered a nationwide lockdown on 24 March, to check the spread of Covid-19 cases, was not entirely without reason.
Supply chains broke down and shop shelves in large parts of the country went empty. At first, transport was restricted, though the government clarified that essential commodities—as officially defined—should be allowed passage by the police.