India is a country of villages. We cannot think of developing the country without properly and thoroughly developing rural areas. In the past, due to non-development of rural areas, people were forced to migrate to urban areas in search of basic facilities. This has not only burdened the civic services of urban areas but also misplaced the rural areas equation too.
The present Modi dispensation has started many programmes in order to develop rural areas and arrest migration from rural areas to urban areas. So it is the duty of the government to develop and provide rural areas with all kinds of facilities like connectivity with the all-weather road , uninterrupted power supply even with solar and wind power, telecom (mobile and internet), health, education, piped drinking water, and other amenities on the pattern of the urban locality to the rural areas too.
The Modi government has initiated a special Vibrant Village Programme (VVP) in order to alleviate the problems of the bordering areas of India. The Prime Minister (PM) called the bordering villages as not the last but the first village in the country. This shows the significance PM attaches to these villages and bordering areas. The VVP is a multi tasking programme that aims to provide livelihood opportunities and other facilities to these bordering villages.
For this 2022–23 Budget Speech, the Finance Minister announced the allocation for this new scheme, VVP. This scheme is mainly focused on the development of villages on the northern border. This way, we can improve the quality of life of people residing in identified bordering villages. The programme covers bordering areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. The programme is completely intended for the people of the villages, so it is framed around the policy of devolution of power. It is to be designed by the district administration with the involvement of the Gram Panchayats (GPs). The VVP is so designed that it should not be overlapped with the Border Area Development Programme (BADP).
The VVP also aims to increase the scope of livelihood opportunities in bordering areas so people do not migrate to other areas in search of livelihood opportunities. Livelihood opportunities may include bee keeping, providing drones and other facilities for agriculture yields, and promoting handicrafts and local products with proper and timely marketing facilities.
There are many benefits to this vibrant village programme. It not only discourages people’s migration from rural areas but also strengthens the security of the bordering areas. We cannot imagine a developed country where the people of the bordering areas or the rural people from any village are displaced due to the non-availability of the basic amenities. Its moral duty of the government to facilitate all kinds of.
The VVP has many new dimensions with respect to old ones. The involvement of GPs is only to cater as per the requirements of local areas resuirements. It has also to take full care of natural, human and other resources of the bordering villages on the northern border. The programme also looks for tourism potential in the bordering areas by promoting local, cultural, traditional knowledge and heritage to the far flung areas. The programme also takes into account the model of hub and spoke by giving thrust to social entrepreneurship along with empowerment of youth and women through skill development and entrepreneurship. The VVP has also an inclination for sustainable eco-agri businesses. This promotes concept of one village-one product’ through community-based organisations, cooperatives and local bodies.
The VVP was allotted 4800 crore in 2022-23 financial Budget. Out of this allocation Rs 2,500 crore would be used for constructing roads. The VVP is for infrastructure development on northern land border comprising 2967 villages in 19 Districts and 46 Border blocks in 4 States and 1 Union Territory. 663 villages were choosen in the first phase of VVP implementation.
It is due to the success and ground level implementation of the VVP that the China has lost its calmness and taking reckless steps like changing name of places in Arunachal Pradesh. It shows Chinese desperation. Since it is in no position to take any step so it is taking such These steps have nothing to do with India.
