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The second signifier of the Vibrant Village Programme (VVP) volition screen 1,954 strategical villages on the onshore borders with Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar successful 15 States and 2 Union Territories, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The VVP was launched successful 2023, primitively to assistance improvement successful villages on the China border. The VVP-II was cleared by the Union Cabinet successful April 2025.
On February 20, Home Minister Amit Shah is apt to motorboat the VVP-II programme astatine Nathanpur colony successful Assam’s Cachar territory on the Bangladesh border.
The Ministry said that often, residents of the borderline villages whitethorn edifice to illicit activities, petty crimes, connive successful trans-border crimes, and are prone to migrating to municipality areas, creating a vacuum that leads to demographic changes and amerciable migration. “The VVP programme envisages ensuring assimilation of the borderline colonisation with the nation, and inculcate them arsenic eyes and ears of the borderline guarding forces (BGFs), make amended surviving conditions and capable livelihood opportunities, and wean distant the borderline colonisation from inimical activities,” the Ministry said.
The authorities besides plans “culturally sensitive” border-specific outreach activities to prosecute with communities who unrecorded adjacent planetary borders to physique trust, supply information, and promote practice “These activities volition foster a affirmative narration betwixt borderline guarding agencies and section population, and beforehand a consciousness of shared work successful borderline management,” the MHA said successful its guidelines shared with the States.
While VVP-I was aimed astatine villages on the China border, the signifier 2 with a full outlay of ₹6,839 crore shall beryllium implemented successful prime strategical villages successful Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal till the fiscal twelvemonth 2028-29. It is projected that ₹3 crore volition beryllium spent successful each village.
Ensuring livelihood
The Ministry said the main nonsubjective of the VVP-II is to conscionable the developmental needs and well-being of the borderline population, arsenic wells arsenic beforehand divers livelihood opportunities to guarantee economical and taste assimilation with the nation’s wide maturation story. “In these villages, opportunities for nonrecreational growth, societal cohesion and nationalist integration would beryllium enhanced to guarantee that borderline regions are not near down successful the country’s improvement travel and would beryllium developed arsenic maturation centres,” the MHA said.
The strategy includes saturation of existing schemes of the authorities to eligible idiosyncratic beneficiaries and households, fortify basal infrastructure and make enabling infrastructure and capacities to summation livelihood opportunities.
The intent of the outreach activities would beryllium to build spot betwixt borderline power agencies and section communities by providing wide and close accusation astir borderline information procedures, migration laws, promote progressive information from borderline communities successful reporting suspicious activities and contributing to wide information efforts.
