Modi assumes office as PM

Shri Narendra Modi has assumed office on Tuesday as the Fifteenth Prime Minister of India.

He has offered floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi in his office at South Block, and assumed charge of the office of Prime Minister, according to the website of Prime Minister Office, India.

Modi as an able administrator, has focused on good governance initiatives as well as development to bring about qualitative change in the lives of the people.

He has adopted the guiding principle of “Minimum Government and Maximum Governance” and also rationalisation with a commitment to bring a change in the work culture and style of governance.

Modi held a short briefing with the Principal Secretary to PM Shri Nripendra Mishra and senior officers in PMO.

Senior PMO officials has welcomed and received Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office in South Block.