Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led India since May 2014 — winning a landslide majority, then being re-elected in 2019 with an even larger mandate, and again in 2024 for a historic third consecutive term. This is the most comprehensive and updated list of achievements of the Modi government, covering every major milestone from 2014 to 2026 across economy, space, defence, welfare, infrastructure, and governance.
01India Becomes the World's 4th Largest Economy
One of the most transformative achievements of the Modi government is India's dramatic climb in global economic rankings. When PM Modi took office in 2014, India was the 11th largest economy in the world. By 2025, India had risen to become the 4th largest economy by nominal GDP, surpassing the United Kingdom, France, and Germany — all within a single decade of governance.
The economic transformation was driven by structural reforms rolled out in waves: the Goods and Services Tax (GST) unified a fragmented national market; the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) resolved decades of corporate debt paralysis; and the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme worth ₹1.97 lakh crore incentivised domestic manufacturing across 14 sectors — from semiconductors and smartphones to pharmaceuticals and defence electronics. India's defence indigenisation drive also contributed by reducing the import bill and developing a domestic industrial ecosystem. The Jan Dhan–Aadhaar–Mobile (JAM) trinity channelled direct benefit transfers to over 53 crore previously unbanked citizens, eliminating leakages that had characterised government spending for decades.
India's economic momentum has also attracted global capital. Foreign direct investment inflows hit record levels, and India's stock market cap surpassed $4 trillion, with the NSE becoming the world's sixth-largest exchange. Per the IMF's October 2025 World Economic Outlook, India's nominal GDP in 2025 is projected at $4,125 billion, and analysts from Morgan Stanley and others project India will become the world's third-largest economy by 2027.
02Chandrayaan-3: India Makes History at the Moon's South Pole
On 23 August 2023, India scripted one of its greatest achievements when the Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram lander touched down near the lunar south pole — a region no spacecraft from any country had ever reached before. India became only the 4th nation in human history to soft-land on the Moon, joining the Soviet Union, the United States, and China. More significantly, it did so at a location — the polar region rich in water ice — that no other nation had managed to reach.
ISRO Chief S. Somanath announced, "India is on the Moon." PM Modi, attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa at the time, declared August 23 as National Space Day and named the Vikram touchdown site Statio Shiv Shakti. NASA administrator Bill Nelson congratulated ISRO, calling it "a milestone for all of humanity." The mission cost approximately ₹615 crore — a fraction of comparable missions by other space agencies — underscoring India's ability to achieve world-class results at dramatically lower costs.
India's space programme under Modi has received unprecedented budgetary and policy support. The creation of IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre) opened ISRO's infrastructure to private space startups, catalysing a domestic space industry. Over 150 space startups have emerged in India since 2020, and the country has ambitions of a ₹44,000 crore space economy by 2033.
03Abrogation of Article 370: Integration of Jammu & Kashmir
On 5 August 2019, Union Home Minister Amit Shah moved the bill in Parliament to abrogate Article 370, stripping Jammu & Kashmir of the special constitutional status it had held for seven decades. Both Article 370 and Article 35(A) were nullified. The state was reorganised into two Union Territories — Jammu & Kashmir (with a legislature) and Ladakh (without one) — and fully integrated under India's constitutional framework.
This was among the most consequential governance decisions in independent India's history, fulfilling a central plank of the BJP's electoral manifesto. As The Indian Hawk has reported extensively, the abrogation had direct implications for the LoC and the border security architecture of the region, with a reconfigured administrative structure allowing faster deployment of central resources. The separate flag of J&K was dissolved, RTI and central laws now apply fully, and citizens from outside the region can purchase property there.
Investment and infrastructure spending in J&K and Ladakh accelerated sharply after 2019, including border road construction, new industrial parks, and Ladakh's first 4G rollout. Tourism in J&K reached record levels in 2023–24, with over 2 crore tourists visiting the region — the highest since the integration.
04Ram Mandir, Ayodhya: A Consecration Centuries in the Making
The consecration of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024 was one of the most emotionally and politically charged milestones of the Modi era. PM Modi personally performed the Pran Pratishtha ceremony, installing the idol of Ram Lalla in the garbha griha (sanctum sanctorum) of the newly built grand temple.
PM Modi had laid the foundation stone in August 2020, following the Supreme Court's unanimous 5–0 verdict in November 2019 that awarded the 2.77-acre disputed site in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas. The consecration drew a global television audience of hundreds of millions. For a vast section of Hindu devotees across India and the diaspora, it represented the fulfilment of an aspiration held for centuries — and for the BJP, the delivery of arguably its oldest and most symbolically weighty political promise.
05Infrastructure Revolution: Highways, Airports, Railways & Metro
The Modi government's infrastructure record is its most visible and tangible achievement on the ground. National highway construction was accelerated to over 33 km per day — compared to 8–11 km per day under previous governments. This pace of construction has no parallel in Indian history.
Railway infrastructure also saw a revolution. Indian Railways launched Vande Bharat Express trains — India's first semi-high-speed indigenously manufactured trainsets — connecting major cities with a new standard of comfort and punctuality. The dedicated freight corridor network, once stuck in planning for decades, saw significant sections commissioned. The Union Budget 2025–26 allocated a record ₹11.21 lakh crore for capital expenditure, with infrastructure as the dominant priority — representing 3.1% of GDP.
The Atal Tunnel (Rohtang), inaugurated in October 2020, gave Lahaul-Spiti all-weather connectivity for the first time. Border infrastructure in strategically sensitive areas — roads to the LAC in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh — was fast-tracked as a direct counter to Chinese infrastructure buildup, reducing India's strategic vulnerability in the Himalayas.
06Defence Exports, Indigenisation & the Atmanirbhar Revolution
India's defence transformation under Modi is perhaps the most dramatic in any sector. Defence exports grew from a negligible ₹686 crore in 2013–14 to a record ₹23,622 crore in FY 2024–25 — an increase of over 34 times in a decade. India now exports to over 85 countries, with systems including the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, Akash air-defence system, and Pinaka multi-barrel rocket system finding buyers across Asia, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
The strategic shift behind this story is Atmanirbhar Bharat in defence. Through successive Positive Indigenisation Lists, the government banned the import of over 400 defence items — including major platforms, weapons, and ammunition — forcing the domestic public and private sector to develop and produce them in India. The range of weapons India now develops indigenously — from advanced missiles to the LCA Tejas fighter jet — would have been unimaginable in 2014.
India's two Defence Industrial Corridors — one in Uttar Pradesh and one in Tamil Nadu — are fully operational, with investment commitments exceeding ₹50,000 crore. The FDI cap in defence was raised to 100% under the automatic route, inviting global OEMs like Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, and Safran to set up manufacturing in India. India's future weapons pipeline — including the HAL AMCA fifth-generation fighter, indigenous nuclear submarines, and advanced drone swarms — is more robust than at any point since independence.
07Welfare Schemes: Reaching India's Last Mile
The Modi government deployed welfare delivery through Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) on an unprecedented scale, bypassing the middlemen and leakages that plagued decades of previous social spending. Over ₹37 lakh crore has been transferred directly to beneficiary bank accounts since 2014 under various DBT schemes, eliminating an estimated ₹2.73 lakh crore in leakages.
PM Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN): ₹6,000 per year is transferred directly to over 11 crore farmer families in three installments, with cumulative transfers crossing ₹3 lakh crore. The government also made the difficult but politically significant decision to withdraw the three controversial farm laws in November 2021, demonstrating responsiveness to farmer protests.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY): Launched in 2015, this housing scheme has facilitated the construction of over 4 crore pucca houses for the rural and urban poor by 2025 — one of the largest affordable housing programmes in the world under the "Housing for All" mandate.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY): Introduced during COVID-19 in March 2020 and later made permanent, this scheme provides 5 kg of free food grains per month to 80 crore beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act — one of the world's largest food security programmes by any metric.
Ujjwala Yojana: Free LPG cooking gas connections were provided to over 10 crore BPL households, liberating millions of women from the health hazards of cooking on biomass and firewood. India's LPG coverage rose from 55% in 2014 to near-universal by 2022.
Jal Jeevan Mission: Launched in 2019 with a target of providing piped drinking water to every rural household, the mission connected over 14.9 crore rural homes to tap water by 2024 — up from just 3.23 crore in 2019. This single programme arguably transformed the quality of life for more rural women than any other initiative in independent India's history, eliminating hours of daily water-fetching labour.
08World's Largest COVID Vaccination Drive & Ayushman Bharat
India's COVID-19 vaccination drive, launched on 16 January 2021, became the largest vaccination programme in human history by total doses. India administered over 220 crore vaccine doses to its population. Crucially, India developed and deployed two indigenous vaccines — Covaxin (Bharat Biotech) and Covishield (Serum Institute of India) — in record time, demonstrating the depth of India's pharmaceutical and biotech capabilities.
Through the Vaccine Maitri initiative, India supplied COVID vaccines to over 95 countries — reinforcing India's long-established role as the "pharmacy of the world" and generating substantial diplomatic goodwill. India vaccinated most of its adolescent population (15–18 years) and ran a robust precautionary dose campaign for adults in 2022.
09Digital India, UPI & the Fintech Revolution
The Modi government's Digital India programme has transformed India into one of the most digitally advanced economies in the world — and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is its most globally admired output. In 2024, UPI processed over 100 billion transactions annually — a figure that drew emulation from countries including Singapore, France, the UAE, and Bhutan, which have adopted India's payment stack. In September 2023, PM Modi noted that India achieved financial inclusion targets in six years that would otherwise have taken 47 years.
The foundation of this digital revolution was the Jan Dhan Yojana, under which over 53 crore bank accounts were opened for India's unbanked population — the largest financial inclusion drive in history. This created the account infrastructure through which DBT schemes, scholarships, pensions, and COVID relief reached citizens directly. India's Aadhaar biometric identity system — with over 1.3 billion enrolments — became the world's largest digital identity infrastructure and a model cited internationally.
India's 5G rollout, launched in October 2022, is among the fastest globally. From fewer than 700 million internet users in 2014, India now has over 900 million internet users — the second largest internet population in the world. The CoWIN platform, built to manage India's vaccination drive, has been offered as a digital public good to over 100 countries. India's digital public infrastructure stack (DPI) has become a subject of study and replication internationally.
10Surgical Strike (2016) & Balakot Air Strike (2019)
Two of the most consequential national security decisions in post-independence India were taken under PM Modi. In September 2016, following the terrorist attack on the Uri army base in Kashmir that killed 19 soldiers, the Indian Army conducted cross-LoC Surgical Strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir — the first publicly acknowledged operations of this kind in Indian military history. PM Modi himself revealed that the date of the strikes was changed twice for operational security reasons.
In February 2019, following the Pulwama attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans, the Indian Air Force conducted Operation Bandar — the Balakot Air Strike. Mirage 2000 jets from the IAF's 7th and 9th Squadrons crossed the Line of Control at pre-dawn on 26 February 2019 and struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp in Balakot, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa — the first Indian aerial strike inside Pakistan since the 1971 war. This was a categorical shift in India's strategic doctrine: cross-border terrorism would be met with direct military retaliation, not just diplomatic protest.
Both operations were enabled by the modernisation of India's armed forces under the Modi government — from the induction of the Rafale to enhanced LAC border infrastructure and forward deployment capabilities. India's defence spending rose from $36 billion in 2014 to over $86 billion by 2025, making it one of the top three defence spenders globally.
11Abolition of Triple Talaq: A Landmark for Muslim Women
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, passed on 1 August 2019, criminalised the practice of instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat), which had allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by uttering "talaq" three times in a single sitting. The Supreme Court had declared it unconstitutional in 2017, but the legislative step — converting it into a cognizable, non-bailable criminal offence — gave Muslim women enforceable legal protection and the right to claim maintenance and custody.
The bill's passage through the Rajya Sabha — where the BJP did not have a majority at the time — was cited as a significant demonstration of political management and the government's genuine commitment to the reform. It remains one of the most substantive pro-women legislative changes in decades and ended a practice that subjected hundreds of thousands of Muslim women to arbitrary marital dissolution with no recourse.
12National Education Policy 2020: Reforming Learning for a Knowledge Economy
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, approved by the Union Cabinet on 29 July 2020, replaced a 34-year-old policy and introduced the most comprehensive overhaul of India's education system since independence. Its ambition: to transform India into a global knowledge superpower by 2047.
Key structural changes include a shift from rote memorisation to critical thinking and experiential learning; mother-tongue instruction medium up to Grade 5; a flexible multidisciplinary 4-year undergraduate degree replacing the rigid 3-year structure; and a vastly expanded emphasis on vocational education from Grade 6 onwards. The NEP was the product of an unprecedented consultative process involving over 2 lakh suggestions from 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats, 6,600 Blocks, 6,000 Urban Local Bodies, and 676 Districts.
13G20 Presidency 2023 & India's Rise as a Global Leader
India held the G20 Presidency in 2023 under the theme Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — "The World is One Family." The New Delhi Summit in September 2023 was widely regarded as a diplomatic masterpiece. India brokered a unanimous consensus declaration despite deep divisions between Western democracies, Russia, and China over the Ukraine conflict — an outcome many observers had thought impossible.
India's most significant G20 achievement was championing the inclusion of the African Union as a permanent G20 member, expanding the grouping to 21 members and amplifying the voice of the Global South in the world's premier economic forum. India also advanced landmark agendas on digital public infrastructure, climate finance for developing nations, and sovereign debt restructuring.
In the 2024 general election that followed, PM Modi secured a third consecutive term — the first non-Congress Prime Minister in Indian history to do so, a milestone previously achieved only by Jawaharlal Nehru. As of 2026, Modi is the third longest-serving Prime Minister of India, after Nehru and Indira Gandhi, with over 12 uninterrupted years in office.
Frequently Asked Questions: Modi Government Achievements
What are the top achievements of the Modi government from 2014 to 2026?
The top achievements include India rising to become the world's 4th largest economy; Chandrayaan-3's historic soft-landing at the lunar south pole (August 2023); abrogation of Article 370 and J&K integration (2019); Ram Mandir consecration in Ayodhya (January 2024); national highways nearly doubling from 91,287 km to 1,46,145 km; airports doubling from 74 to 157; COVID vaccination of 220+ crore people with two indigenous vaccines; record defence exports of ₹23,622 crore; Ayushman Bharat covering 22+ crore citizens; UPI processing 100+ billion annual transactions; and abolition of Triple Talaq.
How has India's economy changed under the Modi government?
India moved from the 11th largest economy in 2014 to the 4th largest in the world by 2025, surpassing the UK, France, and Germany. India's GDP crossed $4 trillion. The country has consistently grown at 6–7% annually, maintaining its position as the fastest-growing major economy. GST reform, PLI schemes, Jan Dhan financial inclusion, digital infrastructure, and FDI liberalisation were key drivers.
What did India achieve in space under PM Modi?
India's defining space achievement under Modi is Chandrayaan-3, which on 23 August 2023 became the first mission in human history to soft-land near the Moon's lunar south pole, making India the 4th country to land on the Moon. India also launched the Aditya-L1 solar observatory (September 2023) and is preparing for Gaganyaan — India's first human spaceflight. The opening of India's space sector to private industry has seeded over 150 space startups.
What major welfare schemes were launched by the Modi government?
Key welfare schemes include PM-KISAN (₹6,000/year to 11+ crore farmers), PMGKAY (free food grains to 80 crore people), PM Awas Yojana (4+ crore pucca houses), Ujjwala Yojana (10+ crore free LPG connections), Jal Jeevan Mission (14.9 crore rural tap water connections), Jan Dhan Yojana (53+ crore bank accounts), and Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY (₹5 lakh health cover to 22+ crore people). Over ₹37 lakh crore has been transferred directly to beneficiaries since 2014 via DBT.
What are the defence achievements of the Modi government?
Defence exports surged from ₹686 crore (2013-14) to a record ₹23,622 crore (FY 2024-25). India conducted the Surgical Strikes across the LoC (2016) and the Balakot Air Strike into Pakistan (2019). Over 400 defence items were placed on positive indigenisation lists banning imports. INS Vikrant — India's first indigenous aircraft carrier — was commissioned in 2022. India's two Defence Industrial Corridors are operational and the FDI cap in defence was raised to 100%.
How many times has Narendra Modi been elected Prime Minister?
Narendra Modi has been elected Prime Minister three consecutive times — in 2014, 2019, and 2024. He is the first non-Congress leader in Indian history to win three consecutive general elections and serve three consecutive terms as Prime Minister. As of April 2026, he has served over 12 years continuously in office.
What is the significance of the abrogation of Article 370?
The abrogation of Article 370 on 5 August 2019 ended J&K's special constitutional status that had kept it separate from India's main legal framework for 70 years. The state was bifurcated into two Union Territories. Citizens from other states can now buy land in J&K; central laws apply in full; and the separate flag and constitution of J&K were dissolved. The decision accelerated investment, infrastructure, and tourism in the region.
The achievements of the Modi government from 2014 to 2026 represent a profound transformation of India — in its economic weight, military posture, scientific capabilities, physical infrastructure, and strategic stature. From an 11th-ranked economy with power shortages and minimal defence manufacturing to a $4-trillion powerhouse that lands on the Moon, exports weapons globally, and shapes G20 outcomes, the scale of change is among the most significant in post-independence Indian history.
There are genuine debates about inequality, press freedom, and communal harmony that form part of India's political discourse — and this track record must be read alongside those critiques. But on the dimensions of governance delivery, physical transformation, and geopolitical assertion, the record from 2014 to 2026 is formidable by any historical comparison.
For the official governance track record, refer to the Prime Minister of India's official website.