Narendra Modi Biography and Works.

Born on September 15, 1950, Narendra Damodardas Modi is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. He has been in office since 26 May 2014. Earlier Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He is a Member of Parliament from Varanasi.

Modi is the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand and Heeraben Modi. As a child, Modi helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus.

As the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Modi’s economic policies were praised, while his administration was also criticised for failing to significantly improve the human development in the state, and for failing to prevent the 2002 Gujarat riots. He is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Modi completed his higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967. In 1978, Modi received a degree in Political Science after a distance-education course from Delhi University. Five years later, he received a Master of Arts degree in political science from Gujarat University.

Engaged while still a child to a local girl, Jashodaben, Modi rejected the arranged marriage. The resulting familial tensions contributed to his decision to leave home in 1967. At age eight, Modi joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and began attending its local shakhas.

He was chief minister of Gujarat from 2002 to 2014 during which the state witnessed enormous growth. Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. He was the first to invite all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation leaders to attend his swearing-in ceremony.

During his tenure as Prime Minister has toured many counties in order to rebuild image of India across the world. Apart from this, he has initiated many ideas such as Aadhar, direct transfer to bank of subsidies, Skill India, Digital India, Bank Accounts etc Highways development has been given priority.

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During the Indo-Pak war in the mid sixties, even as a young boy, he volunteered to serve the soldiers in transit at the railway stations.