Cabinet approves initiatives value 6600 cr to strengthen India’s borders

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: In a bid to make the borders of India safer by means of individuals’s participation coupled with further troop deployment, the Union Cabinet has accredited centrally sponsored schemes value over 6600 crores, to be spent on infrastructural improvement over the monetary years 2022-23 to 2025-26.  

In two vital choices taken on Wednesday, the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the induction of seven further battalions of Indo-Tibetan Border Police, primarily meant to protect the India-China border and in addition accredited the “Vibrant Villages Programme” (VVP) with monetary allocation of Rs. 4800 Crore until 2025-26.

Amidst the persevering with unrest alongside the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the induction of seven further battalions of ITBP, to protect the Indo-China border and establishing of a sector headquarters (SHQ) to oversee them has been cleared. The further battalions shall be raised to man 47 new Border Out Posts (BOPs) and 12 staging camps, additional strengthening the safety grip alongside the LAC, Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur mentioned.

An estimated price of Rs 1,800 cr shall be spent for the development of workplace and residential buildings, land acquisition, and buy of arms and ammunition. Around ₹963 crores shall be spent per yr on salaries, ration of the personnel and different recurring expenditure, the minister mentioned.

A complete of 9,400 troops shall be inducted into the ITBP for the extra seven battalions and the sector headquarter, in response to individuals accustomed to the matter. The further battalions and the SHQ will assist fill gaps on border posts. The institution of those battalions and sector headquarters is anticipated to be accomplished by 2025-26.

Informing concerning the VVP venture meant for the villages situated alongside India’s border, Thakur mentioned with a monetary allocation of Rs 4800 cr upto 2025-26, complete improvement of villages of blocks on northern border has been cleared with an goal to enhance the standard of life of individuals residing in recognized border villages.

The scheme will present funds for improvement of important infrastructure and creation of livelihood alternatives in 19 Districts and 46 Border blocks 4 states and 1 UT alongside the northern land border of the nation which is able to assist in reaching inclusive development and retaining the inhabitants within the border areas. In the primary part 663 Villages shall be taken up within the programme, the minister mentioned.

Elaborating additional Thakur mentioned, the scheme aids to establish and develop the financial drivers primarily based on native pure human and different sources of the border villages on the northern border and improvement of development centres on “Hub and Spoke Model” by means of promotion of social entrepreneurship, empowerment of youth and girls by means of ability improvement and entrepreneurship.  “This will help in encouraging people to stay in their native locations in border areas and reversing the outmigration from these villages adding to improved security of the border,” Thakur mentioned.

The VVP additionally goals to leverage the tourism potential by means of promotion of native cultural, conventional data and heritage and improvement of sustainable eco-agribusinesses on the idea of “One village-One product” by means of community-based organisations, Cooperatives, SHGs, NGOs and many others.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to make the borders of India safer by means of individuals’s participation coupled with further troop deployment, the Union Cabinet has accredited centrally sponsored schemes value over 6600 crores, to be spent on infrastructural improvement over the monetary years 2022-23 to 2025-26.  

In two vital choices taken on Wednesday, the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the induction of seven further battalions of Indo-Tibetan Border Police, primarily meant to protect the India-China border and in addition accredited the “Vibrant Villages Programme” (VVP) with monetary allocation of Rs. 4800 Crore until 2025-26.

Amidst the persevering with unrest alongside the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the induction of seven further battalions of ITBP, to protect the Indo-China border and establishing of a sector headquarters (SHQ) to oversee them has been cleared. The further battalions shall be raised to man 47 new Border Out Posts (BOPs) and 12 staging camps, additional strengthening the safety grip alongside the LAC, Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur mentioned.

An estimated price of Rs 1,800 cr shall be spent for the development of workplace and residential buildings, land acquisition, and buy of arms and ammunition. Around ₹963 crores shall be spent per yr on salaries, ration of the personnel and different recurring expenditure, the minister mentioned.

A complete of 9,400 troops shall be inducted into the ITBP for the extra seven battalions and the sector headquarter, in response to individuals accustomed to the matter. The further battalions and the SHQ will assist fill gaps on border posts. The institution of those battalions and sector headquarters is anticipated to be accomplished by 2025-26.

Informing concerning the VVP venture meant for the villages situated alongside India’s border, Thakur mentioned with a monetary allocation of Rs 4800 cr upto 2025-26, complete improvement of villages of blocks on northern border has been cleared with an goal to enhance the standard of life of individuals residing in recognized border villages.

The scheme will present funds for improvement of important infrastructure and creation of livelihood alternatives in 19 Districts and 46 Border blocks 4 states and 1 UT alongside the northern land border of the nation which is able to assist in reaching inclusive development and retaining the inhabitants within the border areas. In the primary part 663 Villages shall be taken up within the programme, the minister mentioned.

Elaborating additional Thakur mentioned, the scheme aids to establish and develop the financial drivers primarily based on native pure human and different sources of the border villages on the northern border and improvement of development centres on “Hub and Spoke Model” by means of promotion of social entrepreneurship, empowerment of youth and girls by means of ability improvement and entrepreneurship.  “This will help in encouraging people to stay in their native locations in border areas and reversing the outmigration from these villages adding to improved security of the border,” Thakur mentioned.

The VVP additionally goals to leverage the tourism potential by means of promotion of native cultural, conventional data and heritage and improvement of sustainable eco-agribusinesses on the idea of “One village-One product” by means of community-based organisations, Cooperatives, SHGs, NGOs and many others.