Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah launches the ₹6,839 crore Vibrant Villages Programme–II (VVP–II) at Nathunpur village in Assam

• VVP-II: ₹6,839 crore Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Home Affairs for saturation-based development of villages abutting India's international land borders (ILBs), other than the northern border already covered under VVP-I.
• Launched by Union Home & Cooperation Minister Amit Shah at Nathanpur village, Cachar district, Assam on 20 February 2026.
• Embodies the policy shift: border villages are no longer the country's "last villages" but the "first villages of India".