Vibrant Villages plan to be merged with PM Gati Shakti

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The government’s flagship Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP), which envisages developing infrastructure and opening up villages along the China border to tourists, will be integrated with the Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti mega project.
One of the key objectives of VVP is to stop the migration of the border population which will help in gathering intelligence from the people of border villages.
Recently, the Union Cabinet approved the programme to cover 2,967 villages in various districts of four States and one UT along the China border and allocated ₹4,800 crores for the financial years 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26.
The Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti National Master Plan is a central government project, aimed to revolutionise infrastructure in India.
The digital platform of the PM Gati Shakti initiative brings together 16 Ministries and departments of the Government of India with an aim to facilitate integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects.
The Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N) in Gujarat has been assigned the task of providing satellite images and GIS mapping of the projects that will be taken up under the scheme.

Kibithu Village

Kibithoo, located in Arunachal Pradesh, is the first village to be part of the Centre’s Vibrant Villages programme.
Kibithu in Anjawdistrictis in the easternmost administrative circle in India.
Housing dozens of villages within the 10 km range of the McMohan line, the villagers are fluent in Hindi because of their regular interaction with the security forces but do not have proper connectivity with the mainland.