Narendra Modi championing” the International Solar Alliance and “new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action”. On October 24, 2018, The Seoul Peace Prize Committee conferred the 2018 Seoul Peace Prize on PM Modi, in recognition of his dedication to improving international cooperation, raising global economic growth, accelerating the Human Development of the people of India by fostering economic growth in the world's fastest-growing large economy and furthering the development of democracy through anti-corruption and social integration efforts. He is the first Indian to win this prestigious award. Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian
Narendra Modi 2000 crore for a government-funded health insurance program, and a decrease in the budget of the National Health Mission. Modi initially appointed Harsh Vardhan, a doctor and an advocate of tobacco control, as minister of health. However, Vardhan was replaced in November 2014 by Jagat Prakash Nadda. The government introduced stricter packaging laws for tobacco which requires 85% of the packet size to be covered by pictorial warnings. An article in the medical journal "Lancet" stated that the country "might have taken a few steps back in public health" under Modi. A new National Health Policy was approved in 2017.