Bill Gates appreciates PM Modi handling coronavirus outbreak

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates 

Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lauding his leadership in handling the coronavirus outbreak in India and the measures taken to contain the spread of the deadly virus. "We commend your leadership and the proactive measures you and your government have taken to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 infection rate in India, such as adopting a national lockdown," Gates said in the letter.

He appreciated the Modi government for properly utilising technology in the fight against the virus. "I'm glad your government is fully utilising its exceptional digital capabilities in its COVID-19 response and has launched the Aarogya Setu digital app for coronavirus tracking, contact tracing, and to connect people to health services," he said. The billionaire further appreciated PM Modi for expanding testing "to identify hot spots for isolation, quarantining, and care, and significantly increasing health expenditures to strengthen the health system response and promote R&D and digital innovation." 

"Grateful to see that you're seeking to balance public health imperatives with the need to ensure adequate social protection for all Indians," he added. Bill Gates runs the philanthropic organisation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with his wife Melinda. They are the second-largest donor to the World Health Organization. The USA holds the top spot. The organization has been actively doing philanthropic activities in India, including helping the country during the COVID-19 crisis. 


Source: Business Today

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PM Modi ranks top among global leaders in fight against corona virus outbreak

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders in the world according to Morning Consult approval ratings, as India has effectively dealt with the outbreak of coronavirus in comparison to other world’s developed and developing countries. Being one of the densely populated democracies in the world, India has controlled the Coronavirus pandemic efficiently and effectively.

The correct decisions and right measures have been imposed early in the country. Strict orders for the nationwide lockdown and aggressive actions taken by the Modi govt has saved many lives and has suppressed the disease in a timely manner. In the initial stages the number of cases have not been as much as it reached at the moment majorly due to the disaster created by Tablighi Jamaat members. Even after such incidents, the country with a population of 1.3 billion people has saved its citizens from getting infected.

Data: Morning Consult

Amidst all this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders in the world according to Morning Consult approval ratings.As it was acknowledged that India has effectively dealt with the outbreak of coronavirus in comparison to other world’s developed and developing countries. PM Modi has the highest approval ratings as of April 14, his rating went up from 62 to 68 for being the most popular leader among other world’s leader. Whereas, the lowest rating goes to Japan’s Abe as per the Morning Consult’s data.

The Survey has been done among ten countries, where Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican president received the second-highest net approval over that period (36), though it fell slightly from 39 in the month of January. Moreover, Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister has bagged 26 approval ratings in the largest surge in domestic popularity from negative 26 in January. As per the graph presented by the Morning Consult’s tracker, the blue graph for PM Modi has gone up as compared to any other world leader and their approval ratings.

Strikingly, PM Modi’s Net Approval rating was 62 back in january, now it has surged to 68, which gives him a massive lead. The nationwide lockdown has been extended to May 3, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14, due to rise in the coronavirus cases from the Tablighi Jamaat linked individuals. “Till April 20, every area, district, city, state will be keenly observed and checked how the lockdown is being followed. Whichever area succeeds in this 1-week test, will get some conditional relief and relaxation” as addressed by Prime Minister Modi to flatten the curve of Coronavirus cases in India.


Source: The Statesman

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PM Modi's live address to the Nation: lockdown extended till 3rd May

PM Modi's 7-point guidelines to defeat Coronavirus:

1. Take care of those in the family who already have a history of health issues, and the elderly 
 2. Lockdown and social distancing must be strictly followed. Use homemade face masks mandatorily. 
 3. In order to increase immunity, follow AYUSH ministry's advisory 
 4. To stop the spread of COVID, download Aarogya Setu mobile app and encourage others to do so as well 
 5. Try to help the poor as much as possible, especially with food 
 6. Don't layoff employees during the lockdown period 
 7. Salute the COVID warriors and help them


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Next 4 weeks will be crucial: PM tells CMs in video conference

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In his video conference call with states' Chief Ministers PM Narendra Modi is said to have emphasized the criticality of coming 3-4 weeks for determining the impact of the steps taken till now to contain the coronavirus, adding that teamwork is the key to facing the challenge, the PMO said in a statement.

PM suggested specific measures for agriculture and allied sector including modification of agri market laws to facilitate sale of farm produce. PM suggested that direct marketing for farm produce can be incentivised to prevent crowding in mandis, for which model APMC laws should be reformed swiftly. Such steps will help farmers sell products at their doorstep, he told the CMs.

On exit plan from lockdown, PM Modi said there seems to be a consensus amongst states on extension of it by another two weeks, the statement added. PM categorically assured that India has adequate supplies of essential medicines andsaid that measures are being taken to ensure the availability of protective gear and critical equipment for all front-line workers. He also gave a stern message against black marketing and hoarding. PM had observed that the combined effort of Centre and states has helped reduce impact of Covid-19 but said that constant vigilance continues to be paramount.

PM had condemned attacks on health professionals and incidents of misbehaviour with students from North-East and Kashmir and underlined that such cases need to be dealt with firmly. PM said Aarogya Setu app is an essential tool in Covid-19 fight and that it is possible to use it as an e-pass to facilitate travel from one place to another. "There's a need to curb lockdown violations and ensure adherence to social distancing," PM Modi told the chief ministers. The CMs had sought financial, fiscal assistance from Centre to boost resources in fight against Covid-19 pandemic.

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PM Narendra Modi's address on 21 days Nation lockdown 24/03/2020

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PM Narendra Modi's address to the Nation on Janata Curfew 19/03/2020

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Rail Coaches turned isolation wards

Central government is taking various steps to combat coronavirus menace including a 21 days lockdown, telemedicine etc.,

Our railways ministry also have initiated a novel idea. Indian Railways has converted train coaches into isolation wards for COVID-19 patients in prepare of an emergency situation.

In view of increasing number of patients, this might be a great option for to create more isolation wards and beds, other than government hospitals. Railway minister Shri. Piyush Goyal announced this on his twitter handle yesterday.

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How to send donation for PM CARES fund

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a citizen assistance and relief in emergency situation fund (PM CARES Fund) for people to contribute to government's fight against coronavirus. The fund has been announced with the primary objective of dealing with any kind of emergency or distress situation, and to provide relief to the affected. PM Modi will be the chairman of this trust and its members will include defence minister, home minister and finance minister. 

“People from all walks of life expressed their desire to donate to India’s war against COVID-19. Respecting that spirit, the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund has been constituted. This will go a long way in creating a healthier India,” PM Modi tweeted. 


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RBI has just turned your smartphone into a bank, How to use UPI app

Reserve Bank of India have just launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) — a mega app that will sit on your smart phone once you have downloaded it and dramatically reduce the cost and time taken for making simple payments. What's more, you can use this app to pay for any transaction below Rs 1 lakh, even something as low as Rs 50.
The biggest impact of this app will be on third-party payments. Today, if you want to pay someone, you need to add him or her as a beneficiary. You need the IFSC code and bank account number and branch etc. The UPI app does away with all this. All you need is the receiver's unique ID. Open the UPI app, select the amount to be paid, add the unique ID of the beneficiary and select 'send'. The app will ask for a mobile pin to authenticate the payment after which it is done.

Remittances will also become easier and the same process applies here as well. Cash on delivery, the big driver behind the ecommerce boom, will probably die a natural death for people with smartphones. They can use the UPI app to pay after receiving the goods. All they need to know is the unique ID of the ecommerce firm. The buyer can also scan a QR code that the delivery boy carries through his UPI app or pay directly to the unique ID of the delivery boy.
 
 How can a customer use UPI
1. He will need to have a bank account and a smart phone.
2. Download the UPI app of a bank from PlayStore
3. Connect the bank account
4. Create a Unique ID
5. Generate a mobile pin
6. Also link Aadhaar number

Only 10 banks are part of this now but others are expected to join. Another big feature of UPI is that you can use any bank's systems to transfer money or make payments. You don't need an account with that specific bank to be able to use its UPI app. All you need to do is to download that bank's UPI app, register yourself and make the payment.

Source: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/

PM Modi hands over homes at Ilavalai North-West Housing Project site in ...

யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில் தமிழர்களை நெகிழ வைத்த மோடி! (வீடியோ)

யாழ்ப்பாணம்: யாழ்ப்பாணம் சென்ற இந்திய பிரதமர் நரேந்திர மோடி, அங்கிருந்த தமிழர்களிடம் சகஜமாக பேசியதோடு, குழந்தைகளையும் அரவணைத்தது தமிழர்களை நெகிழ வைத்தது.

யாழ்ப்பாணத்திற்கு பயணம் மேற்கொண்ட இந்தியப் பிரதமர் நரேந்திர மோடி பொது நூலகத்தில் இடம்பெற்ற நிகழ்வுகளில் கலந்து கொண்ட பிறகு வட மாகாண ஆளுனர் எச்.எம்.ஜி.எஸ்.பளிஹக்காரவுடன் மதிய போசன விருத்தில் கலந்து கொண்டார்.

அதன் பின்னர் இந்திய அரசாங்கத்தின் உதவித்திட்டத்தின் கீழ் யாழ்ப்பாணம் கீரிமலையில் நிர்மாணிக்கப்பட்ட வீடுகளை பயனாளிகளுக்கு கையளிக்கும் நிகழ்வில் கலந்துகொண்ட இந்திய பிரதமர் நரேந்திர மோடி, தமிழ் கலாச்சார முறைபடி, பால் காய்ச்சி வீடுகளை கையளித்தார்.

அப்போது, ஒவ்வொரு வீடாக சென்ற மோடி, அங்கிருந்த தமிழர்களிடம் பேசினார். அவர்கள் தங்கள் குறைகளை அப்போது மோடியிடம் கூறினர். இதனை மோடி கவனமாக கேட்டதோடு, உங்கள் கோரிக்கை நிறைவேற்றப்படும் என்றார்.

மேலும் அங்கிருந்த குழந்தைகளின் கன்னத்தை கிள்ளிய மோடி, அவர்களிடம் கைகுலுக்கிக் கொண்டார்.

PM Narendra Modi had lunch in Parliament canteen, paid Rs 29 for veg thali

 

PM Narendra Modi's message in parliament canteen's visitor book: "ann data sukhi bhava"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday joined MPs in having lunch in the Parliament's canteen meant for Parliamentarians.

PM Modi made a surprise visit to Room number 70 on the first floor of the Parliament building and took lunch there.

The PM had a vegetarian thali and made the payment of Rs 29 for the same, Times Now reported.

He also mingled with MPs present there at that time and chatted with them.

PM Modi also wrote a message in the Parliament canteen's visitor book.

In the message, the PM wrote: "ann data sukhi bhava".                          Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

PM Modi's Comment on Union Budget : Pro-poor, pro-growth, pro-middle class, pro-youth budget

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the Budget a thumbs-up on Saturday, saying it would further reignite India’s growth engine and signal the dawn of a prosperous future for the country.

 “From housing for all, jobs, health, education & total electrification, FM laid down goals to be achieved by 2022, India's Amrut Mahotsav,” the PM tweeted, as finance minister Arun Jaitley unveiled grand plans to put a roof over every Indian’s head before India’s 75th Independence Day.

“Union Budget 2015 is a Budget with a clear vision. It is a Budget that is progressive, positive, practical, pragmatic & prudent,” Modi tweeted.

Other proposals were also received positively by the PM, who said the Budget had distinct focus on farmers, youth, poor, neo-middle class & the “Aam Nagrik” (common citizen). “It delivers on growth, equity & job creation,” he wrote on the microblogging site. Jaitley announced a raft of measures to prop up the social sector and bring more Indians under insurance and pension covers. He also increased allocation for the UPA’s flagship rural employment programme, MNREGA.  

“Suraksha Bima Yojana, Atal Pension Yojana, Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Vidya Lakshmi Karyakram mark a shift from Jan Dhan to Jan Kalyan (welfare of the people),” Modi wrote on Twitter, a reference to a slew of insurance and pension projects that aim to insure Indians at nominal premium charges.

The PM congratulated the finance minister for the tough measures announced to curb black money. “Details of the Black Money law being introduced demonstrates our firm commitment to bring back every Rupee of Black Money stashed abroad,” Modi tweeted. The Budget announced plans to disincentivise cash transactions and a new law to tackle illegal money that would include rigorous imprisonment up to 10 years for defaulters.

The Budget also focussed on the eastern and northeastern states with Jaitley saying Bihar and West Bengal would be the biggest beneficiaries of the finance commission’s recommendations to increase the state’s share in revenues. Bihar and West Bengal would also be given special assistance, the FM said.

“Budget indicates our commitment to ensure that development of Eastern & Northeastern parts of India gets an impetus & drives future growth,” the PM tweeted.

Source: www.hindustantimes.com

At a Glance - Union Budget 2015

Narendra Modi launched Solar Power Plant in Madhya Pradesh

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today while throwing open Welspun Solar Plant in Neemuch of Maharashtra said that India should become self-reliant in the field of energy keeping in mind the demand of the time. He was of the view of that when it comes to development; the maximum use of natural resources of energy is the best way.

On this occasion along with the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivrajsinh Chauhan, all the dignitaries were present.

The welspun energy company has set up 151 megavolts’ solar power plant covering up 800 acres. This mega solar plant was started off eight months earlier than its presumed time at the cost of Rs. 855 crores. With the help of this plant, about 6, 24,000 houses will avail the energy. The welspun company also has it’s one of the industrial units in Kutch of Gujarat.

Facilitating Shri Shivrajsinh as a chief minister with full of energy and dynamism Mr. Modi said that Madhya Pradesh has given a completely new visage of electrical energy to the nation by establishing such a huge solar plant. He also extended his felicitations to the Welspun Company for its value contribution in the field of energy.

In his address Mr. Modi reiterated that BJP is the government which does understand the voices of the people. “(Power to empower people), for us power is the medium of common man’s empowerment, and their total power is the way to extirpate corruption, (absolute power for absolute corruption),” he said. According to him India can show her strength at unconventional energy sectors by producing energy using the natural resources but the UPA government has always been despondent over it and rather favored corruption.

Mr. Modi expressed his concerns saying that although our country is full of natural resources, get-up-and-go youth power and dynamic societies, it has gone down since a last decade. “even though there are warehouses, people strive. The electricity factories of the nation have the production capacity of 20,000 megavolts, yet due to the lacking of coals enough energy is not produced leaving thousands of people in darkness; however the UPA government has caused huge coal corruption.

He said that the rupee is going down unprecedentedly against dollar, causing the danger of current account deficit because of the adoption of coal importing policies that has increased huge load on national economy.

Referring the mistakes of India’s policy makers, Mr. Modi said that after freedom of the nation, the congress governments never did think over the visionary to install hydro power on the rivers that emerge from the Himalayas and to install the wind power at the sea-shore and also to develop natural resources of solar energy on the open lands.

There are green, white and saffron colours in our national flag and the green is for revolution in agriculture, white revolution (milk) and now that the saffron energy revolution is on the go.

Mr. Modi gave a vision of the seven-energy chariots to directing self-reliance in energy sector that include gas, thermal, hydro, solar, wind, bio-mass and nuclear energy.

Mr. Modi said that we could produce electricity from every possible areas by utilizing bio-mass energy. India could have emerged as the biggest power in the energy sector, but the present national leaders of Delhi don’t’ have the vision of complete future planning of the nation. According to him development is the only solution of all the problems and all the governments of BJP is on the go to meeting the expectations of the people so as to transforming the lives of the common man.

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Narendra Modi launched 165 more Skill Training Centres

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today launched 165 more i-KVK Industrial Kaushalya Vardhan Kendras(skill enhancement center)in a function held by department of Labour and Employment in Gandhinagar. Gujarat has already 335 such centers that have trained one million youths in last three years, 60% of them women according to the government. 165 more such centers are opened today to make one center available in every 15 km area.

To provide skill training to 5,000 persons, the government has to spend over Rs. 300 crore(setting of ITI, purchase of machines, salary to instructors etc), but under i-KVK scheme, government ropes in industries to train same number of students just by spending Rs. 22 crore. The students are trained in industrial units by industry people through machines and tools available there. Successful candidates are certified. They are able to get job in same unit or elsewhere.

In a function held at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar today, 1100 newly appointed supervisor instructors were given appointment letters. According to state government’s announcement, in last two and half years, 4000 class-3 training instructors were appointed.
Shri Modi also dedicated Kaushalya(skill) raths(buses) that shall go to villages and provide training.

Also launched on this occassion was e-skilling initiative under which a skilling portal connected to 500 skill enhancement centers, 728 ITIs and 3 studios in Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara has been made functional.

Chief Minister also launched overseas employment and career information centres in Ahmedabad and Vadodara. Students will be guided about visa, passport, travel, stamping and other issues.

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First Bag-Free Government school in India

The First Bag-Free Government school is started in Sangwa village, Rajkot, #Gajarat.

Full campus is surrounded with Wi-Fi connectivity.

The new achievement of Shri, #NarendraModi

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