MHA sanctions nearly 1022 kms of roads under village programme for Arunachal Pradesh: CM Pema Khandu
Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sanctioned about 1022 kms of roads under Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP) programme for the state.
Khandu, who is on a tw-day tour of Upper Siang district, at Tuting today appealed members of the five resident communities — Memba, Khamba, Adi, Mishmi and Tangam – to coexist peacefully and become equal stakeholders in development of the border areas.
In a public meeting, he said that the communities residing in the northern most part of the district that shares international border with Tibet-China have been living peacefully since ages and that there shouldn’t be any issue that disturbs this relationship of brotherhood.
“Upper Siang’s Tuting administrative division is one of the most vivid and colourful in terms of the people living here. Each one of them are unique, distinct and independent.
Your peaceful coexistence and cultural amalgamation is the hallmark of the district,” he pointed.
Khandu informed that under the central government’s ambitious flagship programme ‘Vibrant Village’ Tuting area will witness a rapid transformation.
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
