Additional fund of Rs.110 cr allocated this fiscal for Border areas development:Kiren Rijiju

Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha that additional fund of 110 crore rupees has been allocated this fiscal for the development of border areas, taking the total amount to 1,100 crore rupees. 

The budgetary allocation under Border Area Development Programme for the financial year 2016-17 was 990 crore rupees. Replying to a question, Mr. Rijiju said, the budgetary allocation for the current financial



year of 2017-18 is 1,100 crore rupees, which is 110 crore rupees more than what it was in the previous fiscal. 

Of the total funds allocated for 2017-18, 103 crore rupees has been earmarked for Arunachal Pradesh, 25 crore rupees for Sikkim, 31 crore rupees for Uttarakhand, 25 crore rupees for Himachal Pradesh and 120 crore rupees for Jammu and Kashmir. All these five states share borders with China.