MHA sanctions nearly 1022 kms of roads under village programme for Arunachal Pradesh: CM Pema Khandu

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The VVP aims to develop select villages in 46 blocks across 5 states, including Arunachal Pradesh, through various interventions such as livelihood generation, road connectivity, and village infrastructure..

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said recently Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sanctioned about 1022 kms of roads under Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) programme for the state...

Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP), a Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched in 2023, aims comprehensive development of select villages in 46 blocks in 19 districts of abutting northern border in Arunachal Pradesh along with Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Ladakh...

The programme envisages focused areas of interventions in the select villages for creation of opportunities for livelihood generation through promotion of tourism and cultural heritage, skill development and entrepreneurship and development of cooperative societies including agriculture/horticulture, cultivation of medicinal plants/herbs etc. the interventions also include providing road connectivity to unconnected villages, housing and village infrastructures, energy including renewable energy, television and telecom connectivity...

We are thankful to the Modi government that Arunachal Pradesh has the most number of border villages listed under the programme, Khandu said.. Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for remodelling the concept of border villages, Khandu said that Gelling, which was known as the last village on the Indian side in Tuting sub-division, today has become the first village on the Indian side.. He said under the present central and state governments connectivity sector in the state has witnessed a sea change..

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