New Delhi,The Chief
Minister, Arunachal Pradesh submitted a memorandum on July 04, 2014 to the
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs where in the issue of sparse
population in the border areas and strong need to promote developmental
activities in Border Areas has been raised so that the residents willingly
settle there and act as our frontier guards along the international borders.
Government of India is seized of the matter and has been implementing the
Border Area Development Programme through the State Governments. This programme
is a part of comprehensive approach to the Border Management to meet the
special developmental needs of the people living in the remote and inaccessible
border areas and to saturate the border areas with essential infrastructure
through convergence with other Central/State/Local schemes and participatory
approach.
The programme is supplemental in
nature to fill the gaps as a 100% centrally sponsored scheme. It is being
implemented in 375 border blocks of 103 border districts in 17 States
(including States in the North Eastern Region), along the international land
borders. The developmental activities under BADP relate to infrastructure
development such as link roads, employment generation, education, health,
drinking water, electricity, agriculture and allied sectors etc.
Guidelines of BADP also provide for
fast development of villages particularly of those located in the remote hilly
areas closer to the international land borders through Skill Development of the
youth, Tourism development etc. to contain migration from the border areas.
From the year 2012 onwards, State Governments have been requested to utilize at
least of 5% of the allocation of the State under BADP for skill development and
capacity building of the people living in border areas.
This was stated by Shri Kiren
Rijiju, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in written reply to a
question by Shri Asaduddin Owaisi in the Lok Sabha today.
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