Union Cabinet allocates Rs 4,800 cr to Vibrant Villages Programme, gives nod to establish agricultural credit societies

Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved centrally sponsored scheme- Vibrant Villages Programme for the financial years 2022-23 to 2025-26 with financial allocation of Rs 4,800 crores, said union minister Anurag Thakur in a press conference.

It will lead to infrastructure development and livelihood opportunity in four states and one Union Territory along the northern borders, he said in the conference.

The programme will help encourage people to stay in their native locations in border areas and reverse the out-migration from these villages, thus adding to improved security of the border.


The scheme aids to identify and develop economic drivers based on local, natural, human and other resources of the villages on the northern border and development of growth centres on "Hub and Spoke Model" through promotion of social entrepreneurship, empowerment of youth and women through skill development and entrepreneurship.

The government has also decided to establish two lakh multipurpose PACS/ Dairy/ Fishery Cooperatives in the next five years.

A Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) and viable dairy cooperatives will be established in each uncovered Panchayat/Village.

While talking about the scheme, Thakur stated that it will enable cooperative societies to setup and modernize necessary infrastructure . The scheme will help to strengthen India's cooperative sector and to deepen its reach up to the grassroots, said Thakur.

"It will provide farmer members with requisite forward and backward linkages and enhance their income and will generate employment opportunities in rural area," he added.