NEW DELHI: As part of its strategy to ensure local support for the forces, the Centre has worked out a special plan to improve the livelihood and thereby the standard of living of those residing in border areas.
Sources in the government said the livelihood scheme for people living near international borders (IB) is part of an ambitious multi-pronged strategy to strengthen the border management security.
Secretary, Border Management (under the Ministry of Home Affairs) Sanjeeva Kumar recently visited Ladakh to review the implementation of the livelihood scheme as well as the infrastructural projects along the borders, the sources added.
The MHA has asked the governments of border states to prepare detailed plans for improving the standard of those living in frontier areas and submit them to the Centre for fund allocation.
“The people living in border areas can play a key role in border management and efforts are on to make them stakeholders in border management. They can be of help in guarding the borders,” an officials said.