Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Arunachal Pradesh on April 10-11, will visit the village bordering China
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 10 and 11 April will visit Arunachal Pradesh, where he will start the ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’ in Kibithu, a village along the India- China border. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Government of India has allocated Rs 4,800 crore, including a central component of Rs 2,500 crore specifically for road connectivity, for the financial years 2022-23 to 2025-26, said a Home Ministry statement on Saturday. With the ‘Vibrant Village Program’ (VVP) is approved.
VVP is a centrally sponsored scheme under which 2,967 villages in 46 blocks of 19 districts along the northern border in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Ladakh have been identified for development.
In the first phase, 662 villages including 455 in Andhra Pradesh have been identified for priority coverage. The statement said that VVP will help improve the quality of life of people living in the identified border villages and encourage people to stay at their native places, thereby preventing migration from these villages and border security can be increased.
The district administration, with the help of appropriate mechanisms at the block and panchayat levels, will prepare action plans for the identified villages to ensure 100% benefit of the central and state schemes.
For the development of villages, the focus will be on creating road connectivity, drinking water, electricity including solar and wind energy, mobile and internet connectivity, tourism centres, multipurpose centers and health care infrastructure and wellness centres.
In the vehicle, Shah will inaugurate nine micro hydel projects of the state government prepared under the “Golden Jubilee Border Lighting Programme” at Kibithu on April 10. These power projects will empower people living in border villages. This will be his first visit to Arunachal Pradesh as Home Minister.
He will also inaugurate the Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) project to enhance infrastructure in Likabali (Arunachal Pradesh), Chhapra (Bihar), Nooranad (Kerala) and Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).
The Home Minister will also interact with ITBP personnel at Kibithu in Anja district of Arunachal Pradesh. According to the statement, an exhibition of products made by the members of women self- help groups of border districts will also be organized. Shah will visit the exhibition stalls. On April 11, he will visit Namti Maidan and pay homage at the Walong War Memorial.
