Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on May 23 that special efforts should be made to establish connectivity with 168 “unconnected” border villages. The villages are located along the Chinese border in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Ladakh.
The minister was speaking at the inauguration of a workshop on Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) that was approved by the Union Cabinet on February 15. VVP will cover 2,967 villages in 46 border blocks of 19 districts in four States and one Union Territory along the Chinese border. The workshop was organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and was attended by State and Central government officials.
Mr. Shah said the government has taken several initiatives to improve the border infrastructure and the VVP has been launched to “stop migration from border villages.”
