On Monday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Assam’s Dibrugarh. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister, welcomed Shah. He is visiting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh for two days. He will take a chartered jet to Arunachal.
In Kibithoo, a border community in Arunachal Pradesh, the Home Minister will today announce the “Vibrant Villages Program.” The Government of India has approved the VVP with central components totaling Rs 4,800 crore, including Rs 2,500 crore specifically for road connectivity for the Financial Years 2022-23 to 2025-26. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in charge of this project. The VVP is a federally funded programme that has identified 2,967 villages for comprehensive development in 46 blocks of 19 districts along the northern border in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, as well as the Union Territory of Ladakh.
In the first phase, 662 villages have been identified for priority coverage, which includes 455 villages in Arunachal Pradesh.
The VVP will help in improving the quality of life of people living in identified border villages and encourage them to stay in their native locations thereby reversing the outmigration from these villages and adding to the security of the border.
District Administration with the help of appropriate mechanisms at the block and panchayat level will prepare Action Plans for the identified village to ensure 100 per cent saturation of central and state schemes.