Home Minister Amit Shah said the programme, which will cover nearly 3,000 villages in four states and one federally administered territory on the Chinese frontier, was aimed at helping reverse migration out of border areas.
Shah added during Monday’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh that Indian troops, who have long been deployed in the region, were making sure no one eyed its borders or encroached on its land.
His comments came hours after Beijing said it firmly opposed his planned visit to the eastern state and viewed his activities in the area as violating China’s territorial sovereignty.
Arunachal Pradesh has become a new flashpoint between New Delhi and Beijing, whose relations have been strained since bloody clashes between their armies elsewhere in the western Himalayas in 2020 in which 24 soldiers were killed.
In December last year, troops from the two sides engaged in scuffles in the state’s Tawang sector, and last week India rejected the renaming…
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