Major Schemes & Initiatives Under PM Modi

A fan-friendly guide to some of the landmark national programmes launched during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure since 2014 — with links to their official pages so you can read more.

🧹 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (2014)

Launched on 2 October 2014 (Mahatma Gandhi's birthday), the Swachh Bharat Mission is a nationwide cleanliness and sanitation drive. Its best-known goal was to end open defecation by building crores of household and community toilets, alongside improving solid-waste management across towns and villages.

Official: swachhbharatmission.gov.in · Wikipedia

🏭 Make in India (2014)

Launched on 25 September 2014, Make in India is a drive to turn the country into a global manufacturing hub — encouraging companies to design and build products in India, easing rules for business, and attracting investment across sectors from electronics to defence.

Official: makeinindia.com · Wikipedia

🏦 Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (2014)

Launched on 28 August 2014, Jan Dhan Yojana is one of the world's largest financial-inclusion programmes. It opened bank accounts for hundreds of millions of previously unbanked citizens, bringing them access to savings, insurance and direct government benefit transfers.

Official: pmjdy.gov.in · Wikipedia

💻 Digital India (2015)

Launched on 1 July 2015, Digital India aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered society — expanding internet access, delivering government services online, and building the digital infrastructure behind initiatives like Aadhaar and BharatNet.

Official: digitalindia.gov.in · Wikipedia

🧘 International Day of Yoga (2015)

At Prime Minister Modi's proposal, the United Nations declared 21 June as the International Day of Yoga, first observed in 2015. It is now marked every year by millions of people around the world — a globally visible celebration of India's cultural heritage.

Reference: Wikipedia · United Nations

🔥 Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (2016)

Launched on 1 May 2016, Ujjwala Yojana provides free LPG (cooking gas) connections to women from low-income households — replacing smoky traditional cook-stoves with cleaner fuel and improving health and dignity for crores of families.

Official: pmuy.gov.in · Wikipedia

🚀 Startup India (2016)

Launched on 16 January 2016, Startup India supports the country's entrepreneurs with funding schemes, tax benefits, easier compliance and mentorship — helping India grow into one of the world's largest startup ecosystems.

Official: startupindia.gov.in · Wikipedia

🏥 Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY) (2018)

Launched on 23 September 2018, Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) is one of the world's largest government-funded health-assurance schemes, offering eligible families health cover of up to ₹5 lakh per year for hospitalisation.

Official: pmjay.gov.in · National Health Authority

💧 Jal Jeevan Mission (2019)

Announced on 15 August 2019, the Jal Jeevan Mission set out to provide safe piped tap-water connections to every rural household in India — a huge undertaking to bring clean drinking water to villages nationwide.

Official: jaljeevanmission.gov.in · Wikipedia

📲 UPI & the Digital Payments Revolution

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), launched by the National Payments Corporation of India in 2016, has helped make India a global leader in real-time digital payments. Under the government's Digital India push, everyday transactions — from street vendors to big retailers — increasingly happen with a simple phone scan.

Reference: NPCI — UPI · Wikipedia