Arunachal Pradesh govt to build three model villages Along India-Tibet Border

Itanagar, March 04: Boosting the development near the international borders, the Arunachal Pradesh government has decided to develop three model villages along the Indo-Tibet border on a pilot basis.

 

Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein while presenting the 2021-22 Budget in the state assembly on Wednesday informed that the three villages would be developed initially in the Eastern, Central, and Western parts of the state along the international border.

 

“I am happy to announce a major initiative to develop three Model villages on a pilot basis in the Indo-Tibet (China) border areas – one each in the Eastern, Central, and Western part of the state,” Arunachal Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein said.

 

“These Model villages would serve as pilot projects which will be further expanded to cover many more such villages. The scheme would encompass innovative ways to dovetail social-economic-cultural needs of village life while establishing these villages,” he said.

 

He has also proposed to earmark Rs 30 crore for the aforesaid project.

 

The Dy CM said the Government will rope in the border guarding forces in designing and implementing the scheme.“These Model villages will be built in such a way that we will feel proud of them. We will rope in our border guarding forces in designing and implementing this scheme,” he said.

 

The government also proposed to allocate Rs five crore for the repair of foot suspension bridges in border areas used by the border guarding forces for patrolling.

 

"We propose to launch border village illumination program thereby establishing small and micro hydel in remote border areas which can be used in local grid or off-grid mode. I propose to allocate initial money of Rs 40 crore to this project which we will implement by converging resources from the Centre," the deputy chief minister added.

 

"Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the past years, we have witnessed an unprecedented focus on border area infrastructure development, including road connectivity. The comprehensive development of border villages would be continued with good road connectivity, power, water supply, health, and education," he said.