Vibrant Villages Programme to be Integrated with PM Gati Shakti

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The Centre’s ambitious Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP), which aims to develop infrastructure and open up villages along the China border to tourists, will be integrated with the Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti mega project.

An overview of the news

• The Vibrant Villages Program (VVP) aims to develop infrastructure and promote tourism in villages bordering China.

• The program will be integrated with the Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti mega project, which brings together 16 ministries for coordinated infrastructure planning.

• The Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N) will provide satellite images and GIS mapping of the projects for real-time monitoring.

• The objective of VVP is to prevent migration of border population and to gather intelligence from the people of border villages.

• The program will cover 2,967 villages in 46 border blocks of 19 districts in four states and one union territory.

About Vibrant Villages Programme

• This program was announced in the budget speech 2022.

• It aims to improve infrastructure in villages along India’s border with China.

• Under the programme, states such as Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh will improve infrastructure and build residential and tourism hubs.

• The focus areas of the programme are livelihood, road connectivity, housing, rural infrastructure, renewable energy, television and broadband connections.

About PM Gati Shakti initiative

• It is a transformative approach to economic growth and sustainable development.

• It was launched on 13 October 2021 to provide multimodal connectivity infrastructure to various economic zones.

• Its targets are to cut logistic costs, increase cargo handling capacity and reduce the turnaround time.

• Economic zones like Textile Clusters, Pharmaceutical Clusters, Defence Corridor, Electronic Park, Industrial Corridor, Fishing Clusters, Agri Zone will be covered under this program to improve connectivity.

• PM GatiShakti National Master Plan was implemented on 21st October 2021.

The approach of PM Gati Shakti is driven by 7 engines-

• Railways

• Roads

• Ports

• Waterways

• Airports

• Mass Transport

• Logistics Infrastructure

Significance

• It will give a boost to the overall infrastructure of the country.

• It will strive to build next generation infrastructure that improves ease of living as well as ease of doing business.

• It will provide integrated and seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods and services as a mode of transport.

• It will create many employment opportunities and boost the economy.

• It will improve the global competitiveness of local products by cutting logistics costs and improving the supply chain.