April 2025

VVP - II, 100% centre funding

• Cabinet approves VVP - II with 100% centre funding with total outlay of ₹6,839 crores
• To ensure comprehensive development of villages in blocks abutting international land borders
• To be implemented in select strategic villages in
  1. Arunachal Pradesh
  2. Assam
  3. Bihar
  4. Gujarat
  5. Jammu and Kashmir
  6. Ladakh
  7. Manipur
  8. Meghalaya
  9. Mizoram
  10. Nagaland
  11. Punjab
  12. Rajasthan
  13. Sikkim
  14. Tripura
  15. Uttarakhand
  16. Uttar Pradesh
  17. West Bengal
• To control trans border crime
• Assimilate the border population with the nation and tap them as eyes and ears of the border guarding forces.