Modi's Governance: Gujarat Model to Bharatiya Model

Very few long-serving Prime Ministers of Bharat have served as Chief Ministers in states.

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Most have been 'national' leaders, with little federal experience. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the few exceptions.

When Shri Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, he brought with him a working philosophy sharpened by a decade of statelevel governance in Gujarat. In those years, he closely observed why programmes failed or succeeded at the last mile, and refined an approach that made him the first Prime Minister to place execution, and not merely policy design, at the centre of governance. From electricity to banking, welfare to infrastructure, this philosophy has since redefined how the Indian state serves its citizens.

Execution Shaped by Experience

Shri Narendra Modi's conviction in execution as the central through-line for policy can be seen in his approach to the power sector. In Gujarat, he observed that villages had poles and lines but lacked actual electricity. The solution was the Jyotigram Yojana, which separated feeders so that households had a 24 - hour supply and farms a predictable share. As Prime Minister, he scaled up this principle through the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, providing reliable power to 18,374 villages. By 2023, that supply had become the backbone for the country's MSMEs, which collectively employ over 110 million people and contribute nearly 29% of India's GDP.

The same principles resurfaced in banking. On paper, rural families had bank accounts, but in practice, they lay dormant. Jan Dhan changed that. By integrating Aadhaar and mobile phones to individual bank accounts, what was a weak system became the bedrock for direct transfers that went on to reach citizens without middlemen, plugged leakages and saved the exchequer enormous sums.