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.
BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged improving discussions on the government's initiative, ‘Make in India’, in the health sector, use of technology-related tools to create healthier societies and make tele-medicine popular. “There are three things on which I would urge maximum discussion and participation.
One is--advances in tele-medicine. Can we think of new models that make tele-medicine popular on a larger scale," he said at the inauguration of a hackathon, "Innovation Challenge on Covid-19' at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) in Bengaluru, today.
Modi inaugurated the event via video conference. “The initial gains in this make me optimistic. Our domestic manufacturers have started production of PPEs