Press Conference Brief: 12 Years of PM Modi & NDA Government

PRESS CONFERENCE BRIEF

12 Years of PM Modi & NDA Government

When Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister in May 2014, he made a promise to 140 crore Indians. Not just a promise of governance. A promise of transformation. Today, twelve years later, we do not stand before you to claim credit. We stand before you to present a report card written by the people of this country.

25 crore Indians have climbed out of poverty since 2014. Multidimensional poverty has fallen from 29% to 11%. This is the story of twelve years. Let us take you through it.

Gareeb Kalyan: Dignity for Every Indian

Every transformation begins somewhere. For this government, it began at the very bottom. Before a country can talk about growth, it must ensure that its most vulnerable citizens have water to drink, food to eat, a roof over their heads, and a light at night. That was the first promise. And it has been kept.

•       Multidimensional poverty declined from 29.17% in 2013-14 to 11.28% in 2022-23. Around 25 crore people lifted out of poverty since 2014.

•       Average inflation fell from 8.1% (2004-2014) to 5.1% (2014-2025). A poor family does not talk about inflation in percentages. They feel it in their grocery basket. Lower inflation is the most silent but most real form of welfare.

•       Swachh Bharat Mission: Over 12.11 crore individual household toilets built. India declared Open Defecation Free in 2019. Today, 4,692 cities are ODF. Urban waste processing rose from 16% to 82%.

•       Jal Jeevan Mission: Tap water coverage grew from 3.23 crore (2019) to 15.85 crore households (2026). 2.77 lakh villages now have 100% tap water coverage. For millions of women who once walked kilometres every morning, this is not a statistic. It is time returned.

•       PM Ujjwala Yojana: 10.57 crore free LPG connections provided to women from below-poverty-line households. National LPG coverage rose from 55.9% in 2014 to 107.2% in 2026.

•       PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana: Free foodgrains to over 81 crore beneficiaries. Ration cards are 100% digitised across all States and UTs.

•       One Nation One Ration Card: Over 207 crore portability transactions recorded. A migrant worker in Mumbai can walk into a ration shop and feed his family without a letter from his village.

•       PM Saubhagya: 100% household electrification achieved by March 2019. A child no longer has to study under a kerosene lamp.

•       AMRUT and AMRUT 2.0 projects worth Rs. 2.79 lakh crore sanctioned, with 2.53 crore tap water connections and 7,943 urban infrastructure projects completed.

•       Atal Pension Yojana beneficiaries grew from 48.80 lakh to 8.96 crore.

•       PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana: 27.33 crore covered; PM Suraksha Bima: 57.92 crore covered.

•       PM Shram Yogi Maan-dhan: 52.99 lakh unorganised sector workers registered.

 

Health: From Insurance to Infrastructure

Once the foundations of dignity were laid, the question became: what happens when someone falls ill? For too long, a medical emergency in India meant one of two things: bankruptcy or neglect. This government decided that neither was acceptable. Over twelve years, we have built a health system that reaches people where they are, treats them without sending them home poorer, and is backed by the largest public health insurance programme in the world.

•       Ayushman Bharat AB-PMJAY: 44.09 crore Ayushman Cards issued. 12.03 crore hospitalisations covered. Treatment worth Rs. 1,80,435 crore delivered under public insurance. Over 40,000 claims processed every single day.

•       Over 36,000 public and private hospitals empanelled. Health insurance of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for the poorest 40% of society. Before this scheme, a single hospitalisation would have wiped out a family's savings.

•       Ayushman Bharat Vay Vandana: 1.20 crore senior citizens enrolled. Over 13.84 lakh treatments worth Rs. 3,000 crore availed by citizens above 70 years.

•       Ayushman Arogya Mandirs: Over 1.86 lakh AAMs functional across India. Each centre offers 12 free services including mental health and cancer screening. Cumulative footfall of over 540 crore.

•       Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: 90.08 crore ABHA health identity numbers created. Over 100 crore health records linked. A patient from a small town can now walk into any hospital and their records travel with them.

•       Jan Aushadhi Kendras grew to over 18,646 Kendras by February 2026. Medicines available at 50-80% below branded prices. Families saved an estimated Rs. 40,000 crore over 11 years.

•       eSanjeevani telemedicine: Over 47 crore consultations delivered. Tele-MANAS in 20 languages handled over 38 lakh mental health calls. A farmer in Jharkhand can now consult a specialist without leaving his village.

•       Immunisation coverage rose from 62% in 2015 to 98.4% in 2026. Mission Indradhanush vaccinated 5.46 crore children and 1.32 crore pregnant women.

•       Maternal Mortality Ratio declined from 130 per lakh live births (2014-16) to 88 (2021-23). Under-5 mortality fell from 48 to 28 per 1,000 live births. Every number here is a mother who came home. A child who grew up.

•       Malaria cases and deaths fell by around 80% between 2015 and 2023. TB new cases fell by 21%; mortality by 28% between 2015 and 2024.

•       Medical colleges more than doubled from 387 to 818. 12 new AIIMS functional since 2014. 157 new nursing colleges being set up.

•       19 State Cancer Institutes, 20 Tertiary Cancer Care Centres, 439 District Cancer Care Centres functional.

 

Women: From Beneficiary to Builder

A healthier India is only possible when its women are healthy, educated, safe, and heard. But this government's vision went further than health. The question we asked was not just how do we care for women. The question was how do we get out of their way. How do we put capital, education, safety and political power directly in their hands. The answer is in the numbers below.

•       The shift in this government is from women as welfare recipients to women as active participants in nation-building. That is not a slogan. It is policy.

•       Sex ratio at birth improved from 918 in 2014-15 to 929 in 2024-25 girls per 1,000 boys. Overall ratio improved from 943 to 1,020 women per 1,000 men. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao did not just save girls. It changed the way India sees them.

•       Lakhpati Didi: 3.07 crore women now earn over a lakh rupees a year from their own enterprise. Government target is 6 crore Lakhpati Didis by March 2029.

•       DAY-NRLM: Over 91.75 lakh SHGs promoted, up from 26.82 lakh in 2010-2015. 10 crore women mobilised into Self Help Groups.

•       NaMo Drone Didi: 1,094 drones distributed to women SHGs.

•       PM Mudra Yojana: 38.29 crore loans sanctioned to women, disbursing Rs. 16.88 lakh crore. Women account for nearly 66% of all MUDRA beneficiaries. Micro-credit turned homemakers into entrepreneurs.

•       Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana: 4.53 crore accounts with deposits of Rs. 3.33 lakh crore, up from just 4.2 lakh accounts in 2014-15. A father saving for his daughter's future is a father who believes in that future.

•       Girls' secondary enrolment grew from 75.51% to 80.2%. Women's gross enrolment ratio in higher education rose from 22.9% to 30.2%.

•       Women account for over 53% of UGC NET-JRF scholars in STEM subjects in 2024-25.

•       Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam 2023: 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. Over 14.5 lakh women elected as representatives across India. Nearly 46% of all Panchayati Raj elected representatives are women.

•       Mission Shakti: Over 926 One Stop Centres have assisted 13.37 lakh women. Women Helpline 181 has supported 99 lakh women.

•       PM Matru Vandana Yojana: 4.92 crore beneficiaries enrolled and Rs. 20,150 crore disbursed through Direct Benefit Transfers to mothers.

•       96% of homes under PMAY-Urban 2.0 allotted to women. 75% of PMAY-Grameen beneficiaries are women. A home in a woman's name changes every power equation inside it.

 

Farmers: The Annadatas Have Not Been Forgotten

This government has stood by its women. And it has stood by its farmers. The man who feeds this country had for too long been the one left unfed by policy. Burdened by debt, exposed to weather, cut off from markets and paid less than he deserved for his crop. Twelve years later, the story is different. Not complete. But different. And the direction is clear.

•       Agricultural GVA more than doubled from Rs. 20.9 lakh crore (2014-15) to Rs. 48.7 lakh crore (2023-24).

•       Foodgrain production grew from 265 million tonnes to 357 million tonnes. Horticulture production rose from 280 million tonnes to 369 million tonnes.

•       Budget allocation for agriculture grew from Rs. 27,663 crore in 2013-14 to Rs. 1,40,528 crore in 2026-27. This government put its money where its mouth was.

•       PM-KISAN: Over Rs. 4.28 lakh crore disbursed directly to 9.44 crore farmer families. No middleman. No leakage. The money goes directly to the farmer's account.

•       Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: Claims worth Rs. 1.96 lakh crore paid to farmers. A bad monsoon no longer has to mean a destroyed life.

•       10,000 FPOs registered as of February 2026.

•       e-NAM: 1,656 mandis integrated; 1.80 crore farmers registered.

•       Mega Food Parks grew from 2 in 2014 to 41 in 2025.

•       MSP: Total procurement over 2014-2026 was 3.5 times higher than the previous decade. MSP for Paddy grew by 76%; for Wheat by 84%.

•       Kisan Credit Card: Accounts grew to 7.81 crore. Credit under KCC doubled from Rs. 4.26 lakh crore to Rs. 10.20 lakh crore.

•       India remains the world's largest milk producer at 247.87 million tonnes, a growth of 69.4% since 2014. India ranks second globally in egg production.

•       Total fish production more than doubled from 9.58 million tonnes to 19.78 million tonnes. Seafood exports grew from USD 3.64 billion to USD 7.52 billion.

•       Agricultural exports grew from USD 37 billion to USD 51 billion, a 37% increase. Share of processed food exports rose from 13.7% to 20.4%.

•       Digital Agriculture Mission: Over 7.63 crore Farmer IDs created. 23.5 crore crop plots digitised. When a farmer is inside a system, he cannot be ignored by it.

 

Environment: India Leads, the World Follows

A farmer's livelihood depends on rain, on soil, on a river that flows clean. What we do to the environment, we do to our farmers, our children, and our future. This government understood that development and ecology are not opposites. They are partners. And on the global stage, India has moved from being lectured on climate to setting the agenda for it.

•       India achieved its emissions intensity reduction target of 33-35% from 2005 levels, eleven years ahead of schedule. Reductions have already exceeded 36%.

•       Non-fossil sources now account for 53.21% of India's total installed power capacity as of March 2026. The 40% target set at COP21 was met nearly a decade ahead of schedule.

•       Installed power capacity grew from 248 GW in 2014 to 532.74 GW by March 2026, more than doubling in twelve years.

•       Forest and tree cover has reached 8.27 lakh sq km, representing 25.17% of India's geographical area. India's forests store 30.43 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent as carbon stock.

•       Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam campaign: 262.4 crore saplings planted and digitally tracked by December 2025. Each one planted in a mother's name.

•       Ramsar wetland sites grew from 26 in 2014 to 100 in 2026. Mangrove cover has grown by 363 sq km since 2013. India now has 18 Blue Flag certified beaches.

•       Wildlife recovery: Tigers grew from 2,226 to 3,682. Asiatic lions from 523 to 891 (a 70% jump). Rhinos crossed 4,000. Project Cheetah brought back a species extinct in India; we now have 53 cheetahs roaming Indian soil again.

•       Namami Gange: 524 projects worth Rs. 43,030 crore sanctioned. Industrial BOD load in the Ganga basin fell from 26 TPD (2017) to 10.75 TPD (2024). The river that has defined civilisations is being cleaned.

•       Solid waste processing capacity rose from 17% in 2014 to 77% by 2024. Over 1,138 dumpsites remediated, recovering 7,646 acres of land.

•       International Solar Alliance: Co-launched in 2015, now has 125 member countries. Global Biofuels Alliance, launched under India's G20 Presidency, joined by 33 countries and 14 international organisations.

•       International Big Cat Alliance (2025): 26 member nations protecting seven big cat species. India proposed it, India built it, and India leads it.

 

Economy: STEADY GROWTH MOMENTUM

In 2014, India was an economy considered vulnerable to capital flight and external shocks. Twelve years later, it is one of the fastest growing major economies on earth. This did not happen by accident. It happened because of disciplined policy, structural reform, and a relentless push to formalise, digitise, and open India's economy to the world.

•       GDP grew from Rs. 106.57 lakh crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs. 346.36 lakh crore in 2025-26, a rise of 225%. Real GDP growth is estimated at 7.7% in 2025-26, making India one of the fastest-growing major economies.

•       Overall exports reached a record USD 860.09 billion in 2025-26. India now ranks third among Global South economies for trade partnership diversity.

•       Free Trade Agreements signed with Mauritius (2021), UAE (2022), Australia (2022), EFTA (2024), UK (2025), Oman (2025), New Zealand (2025), and the European Union (2026). India is open for business with the world.

•       PLI Scheme: Attracted Rs. 2.16 lakh crore in investment, generated Rs. 20.41 lakh crore in production, Rs. 8.3 lakh crore in exports, and created 14.39 lakh jobs across 14 sectors as of December 2025.

•       Bank deposits rose from Rs. 71.95 lakh crore in March 2015 to Rs. 156.3 lakh crore in March 2026. A stronger banking system is the backbone of a growing economy.

•       GST replaced 17 taxes and 13 cesses with one unified framework. GST 2.0 further simplified the structure into two main rates. Taxpayer base grew from 66.5 lakh in 2017 to 1.64 crore by 2026.

•       29 labour laws consolidated into four comprehensive Labour Codes in November 2025: Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and Occupational Safety. Compliance simplified, workers' rights protected.

•       MSME registrations on Udyam Portal grew from 10,020 in October 2020 to over 8.58 lakh by June 2026. The backbone of India's economy has never been more formally counted or supported.

•       Financial inclusion: Over 80% of adults now have formal financial accounts, up from ~50% in 2011. PM Jan Dhan Yojana accounts crossed 58 crore with deposits of over Rs. 3 lakh crore.

•       PM SVANidhi: Over 75.5 lakh street vendors supported with loans worth Rs. 17,800 crore. The vendor at the corner of your street is now part of the formal economy.

•       PM Vishwakarma: 30 lakh artisans registered, 23.97 lakh skill-trained, 16 lakh received toolkits

•       Household income: Gross National Disposable Income grew to ~Rs. 325 lakh crore in 2024-25. The middle-income band shifted upward from the Rs. 1.5-5 lakh range in 2014 to the Rs. 2.5-10 lakh range in 2024.

 

Infrastructure: Building the Bones of a New India

An economy grows at the speed of its infrastructure. Roads, railways, ports, airports, power lines, internet cables — these are not just construction projects. They are the arteries of commerce, the pathways of aspiration. This government raised public capital expenditure from Rs. 2 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs. 12.2 lakh crore in 2026-27. And the physical results are visible across every state, every district, every highway.

•       Railways budget grew from Rs. 32,000 crore in 2014-15 to Rs. 2.78 lakh crore in 2026-27. Rail electrification rose from 20% before 2014 to 99.6% by March 2026.

•       Train accidents fell from 135 in 2014-15 to 16 in 2025-26. Kavach safety system deployed across 3,103 route km and installed on 4,277 locomotives. 162 Vande Bharat and 60 Amrit Bharat services now connect cities and towns.

•       Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor: Under development over 508 km designed for speeds up to 320 kmph. India's first bullet train.

•       National Highways expanded by 60%, from 91,287 km in 2014 to 1,46,572 km in 2025. Four-lane-and-above highways grew from 18,371 km to 45,516 km. India now has the world's second-largest road network at 63.73 lakh km.

•       Bharatmala: 22,590 km of roads completed till March 2026.

•       Civil Aviation: UDAN connected 95 airports, heliports and water aerodromes through 665 routes, benefiting over 1.64 crore passengers. 25 new greenfield airports approved after 2014. Digi Yatra operational at 38 airports, serving 9 crore passengers.

•       Metro network expanded from 248 km in 2014 to over 1,155 km in 2026. Kolkata opened India's first underwater metro tunnel in 2024. Kochi launched India's first Water Metro in 2023.

•       Ports: Major port capacity nearly doubled from 873 MMTPA in 2014 to 1,726 MMTPA in 2026. Vessel turnaround time improved from 94 hours to 48.8 hours. National waterways grew from 5 to 111.

•       PM GatiShakti National Master Plan integrates infrastructure planning across 58 Ministries using over 3,150 data layers. PRAGATI reviewed 382 projects worth over Rs. 85 lakh crore and resolved 2,958 issues.

•       Industrial Infrastructure: Over 4,221 industrial parks mapped. 272 plug-and-play industrial parks operational. 20 industrial smart cities approved across 7 corridors. 100 new parks approved under BHAVYA scheme (March 2026).

•       Housing: PMAY-Urban delivered 98.10 lakh houses by May 2026. PMAY-Grameen sanctioned 3.91 crore houses, of which 3.05 crore are complete. SWAMIH Fund delivered over 63,000 stalled homes to waiting families.

•       Digital Connectivity: Internet connections grew from 25.15 crore in 2014 to 100.29 crore in 2025. 5G available across 99.9% of districts. Aadhaar issued to over 144 crore residents. DigiLocker crossed 69 crore users.

 

Defence & National Security: India Stands Tall

A prosperous India needs a secure India. For too long, our security was defined by restraint that was mistaken for weakness. This government changed that. We invested in our own defence industry. We built our own weapons. We responded to terror with precision and resolve. And we completed what many said was impossible: eliminating armed Naxalism from the map of India.

•       Defence production reached Rs. 1,54,071 crore in 2024-25. India is no longer just a buyer of weapons. India builds them.

•       Defence exports grew from Rs. 686 crore (2013-14) to Rs. 38,424 crore (2025-26). That is a growth of over 5,500% in twelve years. What was once imported is now exported.

•       iDEX: 676 startups, MSMEs and innovators engaged. 551 design and development contracts signed. Young Indian engineers are now building India's defence future.

•       Defence industrial licences grew from 258 in 2015 to 834 by March 2026. UP and Tamil Nadu Defence Corridors attracted combined investment commitments of over Rs. 74,000 crore.

•       Naxalism: Affected districts fell from 126 in 2014 to zero by March 2026. In three years, 706 Naxalites neutralised, 2,218 arrested, 4,839 surrendered. Children in Bastar can now go to school without the shadow of fear.

•       Kashmir: Terrorist incidents declined by over 68% from 2004-2014 to 2014-2024. Security force fatalities fell from 91 in 2018 to 16 in 2025. Organised strikes fell to zero from 2023.

•       Jammu and Kashmir recorded over 2.3 crore tourist arrivals in 2024, the highest in its history. Peace is no longer just a promise in the Valley. It is a reality you can photograph.

•       Balakot (February 2019): India executed its first pre-emptive precision air strike against a cross-border JeM training facility. The message was unmistakable.

•       Operation Sindoor (May 2025): India struck 9 active terrorist camps in Pakistan and PoK, deploying kamikaze drones. The Indus Waters Treaty was suspended. India responded, and India did not apologise for it.

•       Tahawwur Rana, accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, extradited from the United States in April 2025. The families of the 166 people killed that night waited seventeen years. Justice moved.

•       NIA conviction rate: 92.7% in counter-terrorism cases, among the highest for any counter-terrorism agency in the world.

 

Technology, Innovation & Space

Security gives a nation the confidence to dream. And this government has dreamed big. A decade ago, India was watching the technology revolution from the outside. Today, we are inside it, driving it. From artificial intelligence to quantum computing to space exploration, India has positioned itself not as a market for other nations' innovations but as a source of its own.

•       Global Innovation Index: India rose from 81st in 2015 to 38th in 2025. Network Readiness Index improved from 91st to 45th.

•       Startups: India is now the world's third-largest startup ecosystem with over 2.35 lakh recognised startups. Only 350 existed before 2014. Over 55,200 startups recognised in 2025-26 alone. India has over 120 unicorns with a combined valuation exceeding $350 billion.

•       UPI processed over 24,162 crore transactions in FY 2025-26, a 12,000-fold surge from 2 crore in 2016-17. Now operational in eight countries. An auto driver in Chennai accepts digital payments.

•       India signed DPI cooperation agreements with 23 countries as of February 2026

•       IndiaAI Mission launched in 2024 with an outlay of Rs. 10,300 crore. Over 38,000 GPUs made available. India is not buying AI. India is building it.

•       India hosted the India AI Impact Summit 2026 with 20 Heads of State and 60 Ministers. The first major global AI summit in the Global South was held in New Delhi.

•       National Quantum Mission: Rs. 6,003 crore outlay. India demonstrated a 1,000-km secure quantum communication network using indigenous technology, ahead of schedule.

•       Semiconductors: 12 approved projects attracting Rs. 1.64 lakh crore in investments. The chips that power the modern world will increasingly carry a Made in India stamp.

•       Space startups grew from 1 in 2014 to 399 by March 2026. ISRO launched 399 foreign satellites between 2014 and 2026, compared to only 35 before 2014.

•       Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon's south pole in 2023. India was the first country in the world to achieve this. Not second. Not fourth. First. A scientist in Bengaluru made the world hold its breath.

•       Mars Orbiter Mission (2014): India became the first country to successfully reach Mars orbit on its maiden attempt. At a cost lower than making a Hollywood film about space.

 

Preserving Heritage, Strengthening Social Inclusion

Technology can transform a nation, but its true measure lies in how it transforms lives. Over the past twelve years, growth has not been confined to laboratories, satellites or digital platforms. It has reached classrooms, sports fields, tribal communities, cultural institutions and places of faith. The objective has been clear: to ensure that India's rise is not only faster, but also deeper, touching every aspect of national life.

•       Over 10 crore youth sensitised under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, strengthening awareness against substance abuse.

•       Established 1,066 Khelo India Centres and 35 State Centres of Excellence; 23,080 athletes supported under Khelo India initiatives.

•       Conducted 18 Rozgar Melas, issuing over 12 lakh appointment letters to youth across the country.

•       499 Eklavya Model Residential Schools operational, providing quality education to over 1.54 lakh tribal students.

•       Number of recognised Classical Languages increased to 11, with five new languages accorded classical status in 2024.

•       India's tally of UNESCO World Heritage Sites increased to 44, with 12 cultural sites added between 2014 and 2026.

•       Retrieved 653 antiquities since 2014 and facilitated the repatriation of 613 cultural artefacts over the last five years.

•       Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) preserving over 5.19 lakh traditional formulations, safeguarding India's knowledge heritage.

•       Under the PRASHAD Scheme, 54 projects sanctioned across 28 States/UTs, with 32 projects completed to enhance pilgrimage and heritage infrastructure.

 

Twelve years. One direction.

When PM Modi took charge, India was described as a country of potential. Today, we are a country of performance. We went from hoping for growth to delivering it. From promising welfare to providing it. From talking about security to enforcing it.

What we have presented are not just numbers on a slide. These are lives changed. These are families who sleep a little better. These are mothers who no longer fear childbirth. These are farmers who see their bank accounts grow. These are soldiers who know their country has their back.

12 Saal Vishwas Ke, Vikas Ke, Jan-Kalyan Ke.

~ PIB

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