New Delhi, March 19 -- Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that the Central Government has approved the Vibrant Villages Programme-II as a Central Sector Scheme, with a total outlay of Rs 6839 crores till the Financial Year 2028-29 for the comprehensive development of select 1954 villages located in blocks abutting international land borders.

In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Nityanand Rai said this comes as the northern border has been already covered under Vibrant Villages Programme-I in the States/UTs of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu &Kashmir (UT), Ladakh (UT), Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and ...