The Narendra Modi Government has decided to propose an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore in the upcoming Union Budget to resettle people in the areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh. This Rs 5,000 crore allocation will be over and above the earlier allocation of Rs 28,000 crore sanctioned during the previous regime.
The Government has already fast-tracked completion of projects started during the previous UPA regime. All money will be spent for developing border roads, building schools, hospitals, electrifying the boarder areas, establishing telephone lines, creating border outposts and providing all basic amenities for living and thereby encouraging people to settle in the border belt.
In addition, the Government has approved an increase in the deployment of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel, a proposal made by the ITBP to the previous Government which chose to sit on it.
There is significant infrastructural deficiency along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is the reason the border population of the State abandoned their settlements and pushed as far as 50 km away from the border and settled in the foothills. The thinning out of the population along the LAC has made the area vulnerable to Chinese incursions.
Prompt action by the Modi Government came just a week after Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma, in a communique to the Prime Minister’s Office, sounded a security alert about the thinning out of the population along the India-China border. The Governor had warned that it could have serious security implications and suggested the Centre to look into the rehabilitation policy of the area.
Sharma, a former military strategist who has served the Army for four decades, said in his note to the Prime Minister, “This issue needs to be addressed urgently, or else apart from a constant threat of ingress, gradual assimilation of our area by China is along the cards, on the lines already witnessed in north Myanmar.”
It is therefore heartening to note that the Modi Government has paid heeded the urgency of the situation and wants it to be addressed at the earliest.
This is in sharp contrast to the gross negligence of Arunachal Pradesh during the Congress-led UPA regime — a period of tardy progress in matters of development projects meant for Arunachal Pradesh. Moreover, most of the projects were caught in the tangles of environmental clearances and other administrative formalities.
In this era of ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, the new Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar made it clear that the Ministry will give fast-track clearances to infrastructural projects along the frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Government has already fast-tracked completion of projects started during the previous UPA regime. All money will be spent for developing border roads, building schools, hospitals, electrifying the boarder areas, establishing telephone lines, creating border outposts and providing all basic amenities for living and thereby encouraging people to settle in the border belt.
In addition, the Government has approved an increase in the deployment of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel, a proposal made by the ITBP to the previous Government which chose to sit on it.
There is significant infrastructural deficiency along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is the reason the border population of the State abandoned their settlements and pushed as far as 50 km away from the border and settled in the foothills. The thinning out of the population along the LAC has made the area vulnerable to Chinese incursions.
Prompt action by the Modi Government came just a week after Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma, in a communique to the Prime Minister’s Office, sounded a security alert about the thinning out of the population along the India-China border. The Governor had warned that it could have serious security implications and suggested the Centre to look into the rehabilitation policy of the area.
Sharma, a former military strategist who has served the Army for four decades, said in his note to the Prime Minister, “This issue needs to be addressed urgently, or else apart from a constant threat of ingress, gradual assimilation of our area by China is along the cards, on the lines already witnessed in north Myanmar.”
It is therefore heartening to note that the Modi Government has paid heeded the urgency of the situation and wants it to be addressed at the earliest.
This is in sharp contrast to the gross negligence of Arunachal Pradesh during the Congress-led UPA regime — a period of tardy progress in matters of development projects meant for Arunachal Pradesh. Moreover, most of the projects were caught in the tangles of environmental clearances and other administrative formalities.
In this era of ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, the new Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar made it clear that the Ministry will give fast-track clearances to infrastructural projects along the frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.
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