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Vibrant Villages plan to be merged with PM Gati Shakti

Vibrant Villages plan to be merged with PM Gati Shakti

  • The Centre’s ambitious Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) will be integrated with the Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti mega project.
  • It aims to develop infrastructure and open up villages along the China border to tourists
  • The digital platform of the Gati Shakti project brings 16 Ministries together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects
  • It also includes Railways and Highways
  • It allows departments to break operational silos.

Key Highlights

  • The Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N) in Gujarat has been roped in to provide satellite images
  • GIS mapping of the projects that will also be taken up under the scheme.
  • An official said that BISAG-N will be tracking the infrastructure and other land-use changes in the border villages for real-time monitoring.

About Vibrant Village programme

  • On February 15, the Union Cabinet approved the programme to cover 2,967 villages in 46 border blocks of 19 districts in four States and one Union Territory along the China border.
  • Of these, 662 villages will be prioritised for coverage.
  • The scheme has been allocated ₹4,800 crore for the financial years 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26.
  • The amount allocated for road construction is ₹2,500 crore.
  • One of the objectives of the Vibrant Villages Programme is to stop migration of border population
  • The report on demands for grants of the Union Home Ministry tabled in Parliament stated that the objective is to motivate people to continue to stay there
  • It will also help to gather intelligence from the people of border villages

Prelims take away

  • Vibrant Villages Programme
  • Gati Shakti project

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