Border Area Development Programme
The objective of Centrally Sponsored Border Area Development Programme (60:40) is to meet the special developmental needs of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border. BADP is basically gap-filling programme and works are taken up after convergence and dovetailing with the ongoing development programme/schemes. The programme is implemented strictly as per the guidelines issued for this purpose by the Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI in the 6 border districts of the state comprising of 20 blocks and 1962 number of villages. Funds are provided to facilitate the saturation of border villages with essential infrastructure w.r.t Health facilities (infrastructure & equipments), Education facilities like addition of class rooms, construction of boundary walls etc., Sports Facilities (Infrastructure/Equipments), Infrastructure Facilities (Approach Road/Link Road, Community Centres, Anganwari Centres, Safe Drinking Water Supply/Reverse Osmosis (RO) , Electricity Facilities (Solar, LED etc) and Capacity Building Programmes etc.